Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Happiness was different in childhood. It was so much then a matter simply of accumulation, of taking things - new experiences, new emotions - and applying them like so many polished tiles to what would someday be the marvellously finished pavilion of the self.

John Banville's Popular Quotes

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.

- John Banville

The past beats inside me like a second heart.

- John Banville

A man is not much if he can't depend on himself, and nothing if others can't depend on him.

- John Banville

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 …

- John Banville

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

- John Banville

We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.

- John Banville

Poetry is that magic which consists in awakening sensations with the help of a combination of sounds ... that sorcery by which ideas are necessarily …

- John Banville

A plot begins when somebody has something to hide.

- John Banville

If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.

- John Banville