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Iain Banks Quotes

Iain Banks quotes about good

Scottish Writer February 16, 1954 – July 9, 2013

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What do I really want? he thinks. This is, of course, an extremely good question. It was just such a pity that, life being as it tended to be, it so rarely came as part of a matched pair, with an extremely good answer.--The Steep Approach to Garbadale Iain Banks
Iain Banks quote: "Look on the happy side, think of the good things. Hadn't it..."
Look on the happy side, think of the good things. Hadn't it been clever? Yes, it had. Iain Banks
The truth is not always useful, not always good. It’s like putting your faith in water. Yes, we need the rain, but too much can sweep you away in a flood and drown you. Like all great natural, elemental forces, the truth needs to be channeled, managed, controlled and intelligently, morally allocated. Iain Banks
He could not believe that ordinary people in the Culture really wanted the war, no matter how they had voted. They had their communist Utopia. They were soft and pampered and indulged, and the Contact section’s evangelical materialism provided their conscience-salving good works. What more could they want? The war had to be the Mind’s idea; it was part of their clinical drive to clean up the galaxy, make it run on nice, efficient lines, without waste, injustice or suffering. The fools in the... Iain Banks
It made me feel good to know that I could see him and he couldn't see me, and that I was aware and fully conscious and he wasn't Iain Banks
Iain Banks quote: "After doing extensive research, I can definitely tell you that..."
After doing extensive research, I can definitely tell you that single malt whiskies are good to drink. Iain Banks
Perdition awaits at the end of a road constructed entirely from good intentions, the devil emerges from the details and hell abides in the small print. Iain Banks
Everything about us, everything around us, everything we know and can know of is composed ultimately of patterns of nothing; that’s the bottom line, the final truth. So where we find we have any control over those patterns, why not make the most elegant ones, the most enjoyable and good ones, in our own terms? Yes, we’re hedonists, Mr. Bora Horza Gobuchul. We seek pleasure and have fashioned ourselves so that we can take more of it; admitted. We are what we are. But what about you? What does... Iain Banks
Iain Banks quote: "Escape is a consumer goods like another"
Escape is a consumer goods like another Iain Banks

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