"I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend three days being intensely interrogated by journalists in Denmark or wherever. That fact, I believe, informs the way I write - with those Danish journalists leaning over my shoulder."

-- Kazuo Ishiguro

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“He asked himself what is a woman standing on the stairs in the shadow, listening to distant music, a symbol of. If he were a painter he would paint her in that attitude. Her blue felt hat would show off the bronze of her hair against the darkness and the dark panels of her skirt would show off the light ones. Distant Music he would call the picture if he were a painter.”
“Latinos outnumber Black people now. I'm not too happy about it. Because it's only a matter of time before we lose our month. Soon as they figure it out, they're going to have Latino History Month. All we're going to have is Cinco de Negro.”
“Giving is more than a responsibility-it is a privilege; more than an act of obedience-it is evidence of our faith.”
“This was just one night, one chance to vary and see where it took me. The fireflies were probably already out: maybe it wasnâ€™t just a season or a time but a whole world Iâ€™d forgotten. Iâ€™d never know until I stepped out into it. So I did.”
“I think in the first place hearing the music inside of you is very soothing, very comforting. For me there always been, if you like, a spiritual connection between myself and music.”
“Were there not these still mirrors to reflect the beauty of the heavens to us, it might be lost to eyes so seldom lifted upwards.”
“Poetry is God's work.”
“The sex is ever to a soldier kind.”

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