"It was the day my grandmother exploded." — Iain Banks

"It was the day my grandmother exploded."

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85 Quotes by Iain Banks

Iain Banks has 85 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I deliberately keep myself apart from a lot of stuff; I don't Tweet, I don't do Facebook, I don't blog,…
I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year…
I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with…
My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there…
As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as…
I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write.…
Writing is like everything else: the more you do it the better you get. Don't try to perfect as you…
You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end…
Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling.
I'm saying with very few exceptions nothing lasts forever, and among those exceptions, no work or thought of man is…
Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy.
As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines…

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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can… — Hannah Arendt
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I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going… — Alexis Arguello
For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short… — Aristotle
For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to… — Aristotle
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People… — Paul Auster
I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less… — Paul Auster
People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong

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