What I was afraid of was my own grief, the weight of it, the ineluctable corrosive force of … - John Banville

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I sing as an actress. Whatever I'm singing about, I just become the story.

John Banville

What I was afraid of was my own grief, the weight of it, the ineluctable corrosive force of it, and the stark awareness I had of being, for the first time in my life, entirely alone, a Crusoe shipwrecked and stranded in the limitless wastes of a boundless and indifferent ocean.

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You will remember this when all else fades, this moment, here, together, by this well. There will be certain days, and certain nights, you’ll feel my presence near you, hear my voice. You’ll think you have imagined it and yet, inside you, you will catch an answering cry. On April evenings, when the rain has ceased, your heart will shake, you’ll weep for nothing, pine for what’s not there. For you, this life will never be enough, there will forever be an emptiness, where once the god was all in all in you.

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The trouble with you, Vic," he said, "is that you think of the world as a sort of huge museum with too many visitors allowed in.

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Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart.

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. . . being alone with him was like being in a room which someone had just violently left

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The effect of prizes on one's career - if that is what to call it - is considerable, since they give one more clout with publishers and more notoriety among journalists. The effect on one's writing, however, is nil - otherwise, one would be in deep trouble.

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