Who said "We are shaped by what we refuse as much as what we accept."?

This quote is attributed to John Banville.

We are shaped by what we refuse as much as what we accept. - John Banville

"We are shaped by what we refuse as much as what we accept."

John Banville Change

Novelist Irish Born 1945 (age 81)

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

"Memory is a form of forgetting."

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"Change brings new opportunities."

"Every day is a new opportunity."

"Healing doesn't mean forgetting."

"You either get better or you get bitter."