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Iain Banks Quotes

Iain Banks quotes

Scottish Writer February 16, 1954 – July 9, 2013

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He hit and fatally injured my innocent and unfortunate uncle whose muttered last words in hospital, before his coma became a full stop, were: 'My God, the buggers've learned to fly... Iain Banks
One of your American professors said that to study religion was merely to know the mind of man, but if one truly wanted to know the mind of God, you must study physics. Iain Banks
All of it dust now, all of their precious humanoid civilization ground to junk under glaciers or weathered away by wind and spray and rain and frozen ice - all of it. Only this pathetic maze-tomb left. So much for their humanity, or whatever they chose to call it, thought Unaha-Closp. Only their machines remained. But would any of the others learn? Would they see this for what it was, this frozen rockball? Would they, indeed! Iain Banks
As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book. Iain Banks
[Changers] were a threat to identity, a challenge to the individualism even of those they were never likely to impersonate. It had nothing to do with souls or physical or spiritual possession; it was, as the Idirans well understood, the behavouristic copying of another which revolted. Individuality, the thing which most humans held more precious than anything else about themselves, was somehow cheapened by the ease with which a Changer could ignore it as a limitation and use it as a disguise. Iain Banks
Iain Banks quote: "Escape is a consumer goods like another"
Escape is a consumer goods like another Iain Banks
it gripped her hand gently. 'regret is for humans,' it said. she laughed. 'really?' the machine shrugged and let go of her hand. 'oh no, it's just something we tell ourselves. Iain Banks
People were always sorry. Sorry they had done what they had done, sorry they were doing what they were doing, sorry they were going to do what they were going to do; but they still did whatever it is. The sorrow never stopped them; it just made them feel better. And so the sorrow never stopped. Iain Banks
Och, stop being so sensitive, Prentice; it isn't much fun getting old. One of the few pleasures that do come your way is to speak your mind... Certainly annoying your relatives is enjoyable too, but I expected better of you. Iain Banks
Iain Banks quote: "His jaw was slack and his mouth open, and he wondered if..."
His jaw was slack and his mouth open, and he wondered if perhaps he would drown eventually; drowned by the falling rain. Iain Banks
Writing is like everything else: the more you do it the better you get. Don't try to perfect as you go along, just get to the end of the damn thing. Accept imperfections. Get it finished and then you can go back. If you try to polish every sentence there's a chance you'll never get past the first chapter. Iain Banks
Iain Banks quote: "Yes of course I know it's all a dream. Isn't everything?"
Yes of course I know it's all a dream. Isn't everything? Iain Banks
All our lives are symbols. Everything we do is part of a pattern we have atleast some say in. The strong make their own patterns and influence otherpeople's, the weak have their courses mapped out for them. The weak and theunlucky, and the stupid.-The Wasp Factory Iain Banks
Iain Banks quote: "One should never regret one's excesses, only one's failures of..."
One should never regret one's excesses, only one's failures of nerve. Iain Banks
It was as if some magnetic repulsion, which before had kept our two carriages from meeting and passing, had now been reversed, and so sucked me inexorably forward, drawing me towards something my heart made clear I feared - or should fear - utterly, in the way some people are fatally attracted towards an abyss while standing on its very edge. Iain Banks

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