"I held my crotch, closed my eyes and……" — Iain Banks
"I held my crotch, closed my eyes and repeated my secret catechism."
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85 Quotes by Iain Banks
Iain Banks has 85 quotes on this site.
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I deliberately keep myself apart from a lot of stuff; I don't Tweet, I don't do Facebook, I don't blog,…
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I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year…
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I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with…
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My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there…
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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as…
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I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write.…
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Writing is like everything else: the more you do it the better you get. Don't try to perfect as you…
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You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end…
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Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling.
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I'm saying with very few exceptions nothing lasts forever, and among those exceptions, no work or thought of man is…
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Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy.
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As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines…
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More Catechism Quotes
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one of 23 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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But, indeed, the science of logic and the whole framework of philosophical thought men have kept since the days of…
— George Herbert
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Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Did I say the book of nature is a catechism? Yes, But, after it answers the first question with "God,"…
— George Washington Cable
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Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs,…
— Erica Jong
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The family is the great catechism God has given the world. The work of our lifetime is to learn how…
— Mike Aquilina
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If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge him? The Catechism…
— Pope Francis
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I support non-discrimination for homosexuals, but I think, or at least I have the right to think - without saying…
— Rocco Buttiglione
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The Scotch catechism says that man's chief end is 'to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.' But we shall then…
— C.S. Lewis
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We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment-nar rative catechisms.
— N.D. Wilson
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The Catechism was not written to please you. It will not make life easy for you, because it demands of…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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I must remain a child and pupil of the Catechism, and am glad so to remain.
— Martin Luther
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. . . Practice teaching catechism and preaching. Missionaries must apply themselves to these tasks and although they do not…
— Vincent de Paul
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