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...being alone with him was like being in a room which someone had just violently left
John Banville
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John Banville
Age: 78
Born: 1945
Born: December 8
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Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart.
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All I wanted was to be left alone. They abhor a vacuum, other people. You find a quiet corner where you can hunker down in peace, and the next minute there they are, crowding around you in their party hats, tooting their paper whistles in your face and insisting you get up and join in the knees-up.
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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 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'm full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure.
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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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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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Everything we do is tinged with the knowledge that this may be the last time that we will do this, and that makes what we're doing incredibly sweet.
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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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Life is tragic but it's equally comic.
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The effect of prizes on one's career - if that is what to call it - is considerable, since they give one more clout with publishers and more notoriety among journalists. The effect on one's writing, however, is nil - otherwise, one would be in deep trouble.
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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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Given the world that he created, it would be an impiety against God to believe in him.
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We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.
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Where I went, no one could follow. Yet someone managed to hold my hand.
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