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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.
John Banville
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John Banville
Age: 78
Born: 1945
Born: December 8
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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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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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Fictional characters are made of words, not flesh they do not have free will, they do not exercise volition. They are easily born, and as easily killed off.
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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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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 never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.
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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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Where I went, no one could follow. Yet someone managed to hold my hand.
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Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning.
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Sleep is uncanny, I have always found it so, a nightly dress-rehearsal for being dead.
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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 sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization.
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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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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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The Booker Prize is a big, popular prize for big, popular books, and that's the way it should be.
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