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John Banville 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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: irish
Birth: December 8, 1945

Topics

Time Imagination Memory Create Real

We're all dying. We're all in the process of oxidizing. Everyone of us is in the process of oxidizing, so to sort of interrupt one aspect of that while everything else goes on, it's a freak show.

Process Dying Everyone Everything Us

Many things matter other than our measured intelligence, so let's get to work on them.

Angela Duckworth

Work Intelligence Matter Things Get

During the 1980s, international interest in the Nicaraguan war was intense. No conflict since the Spanish civil war had provoked such passion around the world. It was a classic good-versus-evil war.

Passion War Conflict World Classic

Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home.

Home Pet Drive Better Sin Sometimes

I wouldn't go as far to say that anything that I've done is timeless.

Go Done Say Timeless Anything Far

We want the digital world to bend to your physical life, your real emotional life as a person, and we don't want you to bend to computers.

Life World Computers You Person

I don't know if i have a 'take' on L.A. The music community is enormous, from the studio musicians to the bands trying to 'make it' to the indie bands... so many bands... it can be overwhelming. But it seems healthy.

Music Community Musicians Trying

Confidence is king in golf.

Confidence King Golf

I always come across like I'm looking serious, but I just don't like smiling. Honestly, obviously I'm different in person.

Dolores O'Riordan

Looking Smiling Person Serious Just

I don't have the attention span for sports.

Sports Attention Attention Span Span

I've sat through boring speeches; didn't get up and leave.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

Boring Through Leave Up Get Sat

Everything musically, for me, there's two kinds of music. There's Prince and Jimi Hendrix and then Miles Davis and everything filters through that.

Music Me Musically Two Everything

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