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Author - John Banville
Quotes by : John Banville
drinking
There is something about gin, the tang in it of the deep wildwood, perhaps, that always makes me think....
Hopeless
I'm a hopeless 19th-century romantic.
aging
Yes, this is what I thought adulthood would be, a kind of long indian summer, a state of tranquility,....
survival
The secret of survival is a defective imagination.
psychology
He had scores to settle with the world, and she, at that moment, was world enough for him.
emptyness
He knows that after him everything will continue on much as before, except that there will be a minuscule....
grief
Although it was autumn and not summer the dark-gold sunlight and the inky shadows, long and slender in....
irish writers
Life, authentic life, is supposed to be all struggle, unflagging action and affirmation, but when I look....
writing
Writing keeps me at my desk, constantly trying to write a perfect sentence. It is a great privilege to....
Doubt
I'm full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure.
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