Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

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• Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

  

  Kazuo Ishiguro
  • World
  • Work
  • Childhood