Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes
It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
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If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
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Every increase of needs tends to increase one's independence on outside forces over which one cannont have control and therefore increases existential fear
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All I want from you is to trust me with what little you can, and grow in loving people around you with the same love I share with you. It's not your job to change them, or to convince them. You are free to love without an agenda.
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The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.
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It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.
