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Very Quotes by Iain Banks
- I'm saying with very few exceptions nothing lasts forever, and among those exceptions, no work or thought of man is numbered.
- A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
- Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
- Even in my side of the world, I've been in publishing for what, 25 or 26 years, and it's gone from being a gentlemen's club…
- 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…
- They speak very well of you". - "They speak very well of everybody." - "That so bad?" - "Yes. It means you can´t trust them.
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