Sleep is uncanny, I have always found it so, a nightly dress-rehearsal for being dead. - John Banville

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The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.

John Banville

Sleep is uncanny, I have always found it so, a nightly dress-rehearsal for being dead.

Dead, Dresses, Nightly, Rehearsal, Sleep

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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.

Certain, Emptiness, Heart, Rain, Think, Thinking

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.

Art, Cold, Doe, Fiction, Take

. . . 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.

Among, Careers, Considerable, Deep, Giving, Writing

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The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.

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Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

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I was 17 when I auditioned for 'Miss Saigon. ' I really grew up doing that show. I pretty much knew, almost a year into 'Miss Saigon,' that I was going to be a performer, that I was going to be singing and acting.

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The final release point for the fastball is the tips of your fingers.

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A map in the hands of a pilot is a testimony of a man's faith in other men; it is a symbol of confidence and trust. It is not like a printed page that bears mere words, ambiguous and artful, and whose most believing reader - even whose author, perhaps - must allow in his mind a recess for doubt. A map says to you, 'Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not. ' It says, 'I am the earth in the palm of your hand. Without me, you are alone and lost.

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