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“How so much honourable is such a contest, in which one's moral conduct and achievement are brought as witnesses rather than the size of one's purse.

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― Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World

“In an age when other fantastically speedy, widespread media are triumphing, and running the risk of flattening all communication onto a single homogeneous surface, the function of literature is communication between things that are different simply because they are different, not blunting but even sharpening the differences between them, following the true bent of written language.”
― Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the Next Millennium

“If one has failed only where others have not had the courage or will to try, there is a consolation – indeed, a deep satisfaction – to be gained from this observation when looking back over one’s life.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World

“There is certainly a satisfaction and dignity to be gained in coming to terms with the mistakes one has made in the course of one’s life”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World