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Man is only lovable in the multitude, and at a good distance. - John Banville
" "Man is only lovable in the multitude, and at a good distance.
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About John Banville
John Banville (born 8 December 1945) is an Irish novelist and journalist. He is recognised for his precise, cold, forensic prose style, Nabokovian inventiveness, and for the dark humour of his generally arch narrators. His stated ambition is to give his prose "the kind of denseness and thickness that poetry has".
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Benjamin Black
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William John Banville
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