"I just took [my cancer diagnosis] as bad……" — Iain Banks
"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 thought "ha, if I was a God-botherer, I'd be thinking, why me God? What have I done to deserve this?" and I thought at least I'm free of that, at least I can simply treat it as bad luck and get on with it."
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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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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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