“One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.”
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In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into his past . . .A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House, of lost causes and lost love.
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Kazuo Ishiguro
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“One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.”
“If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.”
“But what is the sense in forever speculating what might have happened had such and such a moment turned out differently? One could presumably drive oneself to distraction in this way. In any...”