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Danh ngôn của John Banville (Sứ mệnh: 7)

Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning.
Death is such a strange thing. One minute you're here and then just gone. You'd think there would be an anteroom, a place where you could be visited before you go.
I'm a hopeless 19th-century romantic.
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.
Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.