Typically in my novels the narrator tells a story by remembering, and the memories are colored by this … - Kazuo Ishiguro

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Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Typically in my novels the narrator tells a story by remembering, and the memories are colored by this and colored by that. So the whole universe of the novel tends to be framed by the narrator's memories and thoughts.

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But then, I suppose, when with the benefit of hindsight one begins to search one's past for such 'turning points', one is apt to start seeing them everywhere.

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I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they'd once belonged to the sea.

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Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.

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Perhaps one day, all these conflicts will end, and it won't be because of great statesmen or churches or organisations like this one. It'll be because people have changed. They'll be like you, Puffin. More a mixture. So why not become a mongrel? It's healthy.

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When I got to 40 or so. . . I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on, and many that I had no control over whatsoever.

Actually, Decision, Literature, Mess, Sort, Whatsoever

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