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Almost Quotes by Iain Banks
- Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
- Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a…
- Our lives are about development, mutation and the possibility of change; that is almost a definition of what life is: change... If you disable change,…
- I just took [my cancer diagnosis] as bad luck, basically. It did strike me almost immediately, my atheist sort of thing kicked in and I…
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- I feel like soundtrack music is almost like seeing the movie again, but with my ears. — Dave Attell
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- Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day. — John James Audubon
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