We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
A plot begins when somebody has something to hide. - John Banville
A plot begins when somebody has something to hide.
We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past. - John Banville
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