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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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Benjamin Black
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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 Booker Prize is a big, popular prize for big, popular books, and that's the way it should be.
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No two things the same, the equals sign a scandal.
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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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Life is tragic but it's equally comic.
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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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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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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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I am the worst judge of my books.
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The trouble with you, Vic, he said, is that you think of the world as a sort of huge museum with too many visitors allowed in.
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I don't own a Kindle, no. I love books, they are beautiful objects.
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Where I went, no one could follow. Yet someone managed to hold my hand.
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Ian McEwan is a very good writer the first half of Atonement alone would ensure him a lasting place in English letters.
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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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