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Irish writer John Banville.
Opposite our achievements rise, fatefully, the occasions in which we fail to measure up.
The phrase is dropped by the Irish writer John Banville in a passage from his novel The Singularities, recently published among us: «There are no great men; ask any woman. Upon bumping into her, this reader is inevitably reminded of how Nora Joyce, the wife of the author of Ulysses, mocked him in front of her.

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