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.
The past beats inside me like a second heart. - John Banville
The past beats inside me like a second heart.
- John Banville
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
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.
A man is not much if he can't depend on himself, and nothing if others can't depend on him. - John Banville
A man is not much if he can't depend on himself, and nothing if others can't depend on him.
In order really to write one has to sink deep into the self and become lost there. - John Banville
In order really to write one has to sink deep into the self and become lost there.
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
Poetry is that magic which consists in awakening sensations with the help of a combination of sounds ... that sorcery by which ideas are necessarily …
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
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 …
We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past. - John Banville
We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.
If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence. - John Banville
If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.
A plot begins when somebody has something to hide. - John Banville
A plot begins when somebody has something to hide.
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