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Thing Quotes by Iain Banks
- Writing is like everything else: the more you do it the better you get. Don't try to perfect as you go along, just get to…
- It looks perverted and wasteful to us, but then one thing that empires are not about is the efficient use of resources and the spread…
- ...[Changers] were a threat to identity, a challenge to the individualism even of those they were never likely to impersonate. It had nothing to do…
- Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
- An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way…
- 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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