I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they'd once belonged to the sea.
Kazuo IshiguroWhat do you think dignity's all about?' The directness of the inquiry did, I admit, take me rather by surprise. 'It's rather a hard thing to explain in a few words, sir,' I said. 'But I suspect it comes down to not removing one's clothing in public.
Kazuo IshiguroโฆItโs hard to appreciate the beauty of a world when one doubts its very validityโฆ.But Iโve long since lost all such doubts, Ono,โ he continued. โWhen I am an old man, when I look back over my life and see I have devoted it to the task of capturing the unique beauty of that world, I believe I will be well satisfied. And no man will make me believe Iโve wasted my time.
Kazuo IshiguroBut I really wanted to find it for you. And when it looked in the end like it wasn't going to turn up, I just said to myself, one day I'll go to Norfolk and I'll find it there for her.' 'The lost corner of England,' I said.
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