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Iain Banks has 86 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I deliberately keep myself apart from a lot of stuff; I don't Tweet, I don't do Facebook, I don't blog, and that's…
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I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.
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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…
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My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.
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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make…
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I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy…
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Writing is like everything else: the more you do it the better you get. Don't try to perfect as you go along,…
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You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history
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Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling.
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I'm saying with very few exceptions nothing lasts forever, and among those exceptions, no work or thought of man is numbered.
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Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy.
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As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the…
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The world has been evolved, not created: it has arisen little by little from a small beginning, and has increased through the…
— August Weismann
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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.
— Albert Einstein
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I see on a immense scale, and as clearly as in a demonstration in a laboratory, that good comes out of evil;…
— John Burroughs
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The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a…
— Carl Jung
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Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of…
— Carl Jung
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Science has grown frightfully audacious in these days -- swift-footed, ponderous, careering over her iron ways with unslacking pace. This rampant dragon,…
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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The truth is not always useful, not always good. It’s like putting your faith in water. Yes, we need the rain, but…
— Iain Banks
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How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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