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Iain Banks Quotes

Iain Banks quotes

Scottish Writer February 16, 1954 – July 9, 2013

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Iain Banks quote: "It never ceased to amaze him how quickly a small child's face..."
It never ceased to amaze him how quickly a small child's face could turn from peach to beetroot. Iain Banks
I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese. Iain Banks
It's like a sealed, forgotten chamber in me; I shan't feel complete until I've discovered its entrance.' 'Sounds like a tomb. Aren't you afraid of what you'll find in there?' 'It's a library; only the stupid and the evil are afraid of those. Iain Banks
Even galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civilisational power have turf wars within their unacknowledged militaries. Iain Banks
Iain Banks quote: "You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads..."
You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history Iain Banks
Iain Banks quote: "I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!"
I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books! Iain Banks
Iain Banks quote: "I held my crotch, closed my eyes and repeated my secret..."
I held my crotch, closed my eyes and repeated my secret catechism. Iain Banks
I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others. Iain Banks
Iain Banks quote: "Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying."
Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying. Iain Banks
Though drones, avatars and even humans are one thing; the loss of any is not without moral and diplomatic import, of course, but might be dismissed as merely unfortunate and regrettable, something to be smoothed over through the usual channels. Attacking a ship, on the other hand, is an unambiguous act of war. Iain Banks
There has seldom if ever a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression of this simple fact; there is never a scarcity of idiots. Iain Banks
Iain Banks quote: "There is only darkness, starless and complete. The waves..."
There is only darkness, starless and complete. The waves glitter like a million dull knives. Iain Banks
Iain Banks quote: "I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that..."
I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all! Iain Banks
The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put profits before people, money before morality, dividends before decency, fanaticism before fairness, and our own trivial comforts before the unspeakable agonies of others Iain Banks
Perhaps we think up our own destinies, and so in a sense deserve whatever happens to us, for not having had the wit to imagine something better. Iain Banks

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