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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a7a6b77 | If they give me the bloody prize, why can't they say nice things about me? | John Banville | ||
| 7a921a1 | The white May blossom swooned slowly into the open mouth of the grave. | John Banville | ||
| 3f706a6 | I suspect that significant first encounters only take on their aura of significance in retrospect. | John Banville | ||
| 0e38973 | Man is only lovable in the multitude, and at a good distance. | John Banville | ||
| ae4233a | Let's not despise story-telling. Like all novelists, I have this low desire to tell people stories. | John Banville | ||
| 2de74cf | Ambiguity is the essence of Irish writing, I think. | John Banville | ||
| 920f656 | We writers are shy, nocturnal creatures. Push us into the light and the light blinds us. | John Banville | ||
| 14e2c6f | Summoned, one shuffles guiltily into the department of trivia. | John Banville | ||
| c29668b | Oh, I'm terribly ignorant of Czech literature. It's disgraceful really. | John Banville | ||
| 2ba3f65 | I'm doing my best to not be too rude about it, but oh my God that Czech food... | John Banville | ||
| efccd14 | There is something slightly sinister about Prague, just as there is about Lyon and Turin. | John Banville | ||
| fbc3fbb | The world is a dark place, and I find it endlessly funny. | John Banville | ||
| 5208aaf | I'm a little older now and I think I've lightened up a bit as I'm getting older. | John Banville | ||
| bed074a | And coxcombs vanquish Berkeley by a grin. | John Brown (essayist) | ||
| 94d2419 | I like to hide in Ireland, but I like to think of myself as an internal exile. | John Banville | ||
| 33ad881 | One must try to keep a sensible perspective and not take oneself too seriously. | John Banville | ||
| 9892c0e | Every artist has a Dorian Gray slaving away in the attic. | John Banville | ||
| 845c169 | I like to dress conservatively because then the outrageous things you say are even more outrageous. | John Banville | ||
| b9d70c9 | Luff is off sa mekill mycht,That it all paynys makis lych. | John Barbour | ||
| 0d8acf9 | Thai eyt it with full gud willBot appetyt. | John Barbour | ||
| 795331e | Na thar may na man fyr sa covyrThan low or rek sall it discovyr. | John Barbour | ||
| 5be6857 | The more rules you impose on a creative intelligence, of course, the fewer problems it can solve. | John Barnes | ||
| 263feee | He wasn't as dumb as I thought, I realized--just not interested in the same things I was. | John Barnes | ||
| 3b9f0dd | Brains don't exactly run in that family--they sort of dribble slowly away. | John Barnes | ||
| 6d8be66 | You can't really win an argument against somebody's feeling that something is just plain wrong. | John Barnes | ||
| 3182242 | The way you can tell there's democracy going on is that nothing gets done. | John Barnes | ||
| 12d3a2f | Justice has a way of not arriving where and when you wish it. | John Barnes | ||
| 2509bde | Work does not cause money; getting paid causes money. | John Barnes | ||
| da1d9c0 | It's a game against the clock, but what isn't? | John Barnes | ||
| ca49c42 | It is characteristic of information that it can be stolen an all but unlimited number of times. | John Barnes | ||
| 686a608 | Once I'm dead, I can afford to be patient. | John Barnes | ||
| de8e3ec | Once you understand what money can do it gets harder to live without it. | John Barnes | ||
| 030d796 | Are you up to faking being sincere underneath faking being fake? | John Barnes | ||
| c321d44 | He wonders if there is some requirement that you have to be an idiot to be a politician. | John Barnes | ||
| 588b195 | Finally she resorts to the oldest tactic of all, telling the truth. | John Barnes | ||
| b68b40d | Orson Welles? What are they? | John Barrymore | ||
| 01a7e21 | A person is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. | John Barrymore | ||
| 5730b9a | Intemperance weaves the winding-sheet of souls. | John Bartholomew Gough | ||
| 82f106e | If the Bible is God's word, and we believe it, let us handle it with reverence. | John Bartholomew Gough | ||
| 7ff69ed | The cardinal method with faults is to overgrow them and choke them out with virtues. | John Bascom | ||
| 19b4a4e | If you can dream it, you can do it. Never give up on your dreams. | John Basedow | ||
| 29f3c58 | Don't tell me what I should do until you show me what you can do. | John Basedow | ||
| ad07565 | Believe in yourself and you can accomplish anything. | John Basedow | ||
| 51dac89 | I give so much pleasure to so many people. Why can I not get some pleasure for myself? | John Belushi |