"It gripped her hand gently. 'Regret is for……" — Iain Banks
"It gripped her hand gently. 'Regret is for humans,' it said. She laughed. 'Really?' The machine shrugged and let go of her hand. 'Oh, no. It's just something we tell ourselves."
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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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It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize…
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Row, row, row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.
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