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“In bantering lies the key to human warmth.”

WOW! This was boring and beautiful 😍 or should I say dry and sublime?

I haven’t had a reading experience like this in a while. Reading this requires attention and patience. Nothing really happens but then it lands in the end what Ishiguro’s intent is.

A masterpiece! The writing technique here needs to be studied in schools ❤️

“Why Mr Stevens? Why? Why do you always have to pretend?”

💔

“View the world not as a ladder but as a wheel.”

❤️

“I believe I have a good idea of what you mean by professionalism. It appears to mean getting one’s way by cheating and manipulating. It appears to mean serving the dictates of greed and advantage rather than those of goodness and a desire to see justice prevail in the world.

If that’s the professionalism you refer to, I don’t much care for it and have no wish to acquire it.”

😍❤️🥰

The Jewish maid scene - I’m SCREAMING!!!

Also Steven’s father passing - WHAT DID I JUST READ???


OMG!!! OMG!!! 💔

“The rest of my life stretches out as an emptiness before me.”

❤️

“One is not struck by the truth, until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.”

🎯