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With the crime novels, its delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. Its like having a fictitious family.
John Banville
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John Banville
Age: 78
Born: 1945
Born: December 8
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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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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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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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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 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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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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All art at a certain level is entertainment. We go to a tragedy by Sophocles to be entertained.
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Sleep is uncanny, I have always found it so, a nightly dress-rehearsal for being dead.
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I am the worst judge of my books.
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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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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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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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