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John Banville Quotes: He had scores to settle with the world, and she, at that moment, was world enough for him.
         

He had scores to settle with the world, and she, at that moment, was world enough for him.


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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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In order really to write one has to sink deep into the self and become lost there.



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.

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 past beats inside me like a second heart.



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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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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 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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To take possession of a city of which you are not a native you must first fall in love there.



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For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an oyster we create a pearl around them.



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