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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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I've always been fascinated by physics and cosmology. It gets more and more scary the older you get.
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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 am the worst judge of my books.
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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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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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Sleep is uncanny, I have always found it so, a nightly dress-rehearsal for being dead.
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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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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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The secret of survival is a defective imagination.
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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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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 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 sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization.
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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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No two things the same, the equals sign a scandal.
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