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John Banville Inspirational Quotes (39)

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We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.
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Given the world that he created, it would be an impiety against God to believe in him.
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If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.
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And indeed nothing had happened, a momentous nothing, just another of the great world's shrugs of indifference.
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I dont know if there is a personal identity. We all imagine that we are absolute individuals. But when we begin to look for where this individuality resides, its very difficult to find.
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I read Nietzsche when I was a teenager and then I went back to reading him when I was in my thirties, and his voice spoke directly to me. Nietzsche is such a superb literary artist.
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I don't own a Kindle, no. I love books, they are beautiful objects.
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The secret of survival is a defective imagination.
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We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.
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I am the worst judge of my books.
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...being alone with him was like being in a room which someone had just violently left
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All my life I have lied. I lied to escape, I lied to be loved, I lied for placement and power I lied to lie. It was a way of living lies are life's almost-anagram.
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Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning.
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Fictional characters are made of words, not flesh they do not have free will, they do not exercise volition. They are easily born, and as easily killed off.
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Life is tragic but it's equally comic.
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