"...[Changers] were a threat to identity, a challenge……" — Iain Banks
"...[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 with souls or physical or spiritual possession; it was, as the Idirans well understood, the behavouristic copying of another which revolted. Individuality, the thing which most humans held more precious than anything else about themselves, was somehow cheapened by the ease with which a Changer could ignore it as a limitation and use it as a disguise."
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85 Quotes by Iain Banks
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Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling.
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