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Life is tragic but it's equally comic.
John Banville
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John Banville
Age: 78
Born: 1945
Born: December 8
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There are times, they occur with increasing frequency nowadays, when I seem to know nothing, when everything I know seems to have fallen out of my mind like a shower of rain, and I am gripped for a moment in paralysed dismay, waiting for it all to come back but with no certainty that it will.
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Sleep is uncanny, I have always found it so, a nightly dress-rehearsal for being dead.
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