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If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.
John Banville
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John Banville
Age: 78
Born: 1945
Born: December 8
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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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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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The first thought that occurred to me, that night when I heard the chairman of the jury announce my name, was, Just think how many people hate me at this moment. Naturally, I wanted to annoy those people even further by being arrogant.
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I live in Dublin, God knows why. There are greatly more congenial places I could have settled in - Italy, France, Manhattan - but I like the climate here, and Irish light seems to be essential for me and for my writing.
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No two things the same, the equals sign a scandal.
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I shall strip away layer after layer of grime -- the toffee-colored varnish and caked soot left by a lifetime of dissembling -- until I come to the very thing itself and know it for what it is. My soul. My self.
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The Booker Prize is a big, popular prize for big, popular books, and that's the way it should be.
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I'm full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure.
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A man is not much if he can't depend on himself, and nothing if others can't depend on him.
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