“There was another life that I might have had, but I am…” Kazuo Ishiguro

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There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

On growing up in England, having left Japan at age 5. Conversation with Lewis Burke Frumkes, The Writer, volume 114, number 5, May 2001, collected in Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro, p. 189

I’m more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
Dunn, Adam. “In the land of memory: Kazuo Ishiguro remembers when” cnn.com Book News. 27 Oct. 2000 (archived from the original on 2001-06-25).
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