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.
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John Banville
These are some quotes by Irish author John Banville Novelist, who was born on December 8, 1945.
Quotes by John Banville
Why does the past seem so magical, so fraught, so luminous? At the time it was just, ugh, another boring bloody day. But, to look back on, it's a day full of miracles and light and extraordinary events. Why is this? What process do we apply to the past, to give it this vividness? I don't know.
