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Out Quotes by Iain Banks
- You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history
- Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state
- I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get…
- Half the fun of writing a novel is finding out from other people later on what you actually meant.
- All our lives are symbols. Everything we do is part of a pattern we have at least some say in. The strong make their own…
- But it was pointless, it was stupid; he thought about thoughtless things. If I were a seabird . . . but how could you be…
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- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight,… — Hank Azaria