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Great Quotes by Iain Banks
- 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!
- I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going…
- Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
- 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…
- People can be teachers and idiots; they can be philosophers and idiots; they can be politicians and idiots... in fact I think they have to…
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