"Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers."

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Source : Kazuo Ishiguro (1982). “A Pale View of Hills”, Thorndike Press

Kazuo Ishiguro

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“In Survivor and Finder's Fee, it is about what you would do if you could get away with it. Survivor is about your own integrity and where you draw your own ethical and moral lines. There are no rules.”
“There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman! No human being is unimportant. My inspiration comes in opening opportunities that all alike may be free to live life to the fullest.”

Source : Samuel Gompers (1957). “Seventy years of life and labor: an autobiography”
“Our children and grandchildren visit us regularly in the Ã‰lysÃ©e Palace . The little ones are constantly running around outside in the garden. The first time they were intimidated by this place, but now they move around here totally normally. I think it is important that people really live in this place.”
“It is time for the Chinese to make good on their word.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.”
“To an even moderately sophisticated and well-read person it should come as no surprise that any religion at all has its hidden as well as its obvious beauties and is capable of profound and impressive interpretations. What is deeply objectionable about most of these interpretations is that they allow the believer to say Yes while evading any No.”

Source : "The Faith of a Heretic" by Walter Kaufmann, 1959.
“What we need is a critique of visual culture that is alert to the power of images for good and evil and that is capable of discriminating the variety and historical specificity of their uses.”
“I like playing accents, and doing things like that, it was fun. It was fun.”

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