"Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen……" — Iain Banks
"Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy."
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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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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 looks perverted and wasteful to us, but then one thing that empires are not about is the efficient use…
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More Equates Quotes
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Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is…
— Jacob Burckhardt
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For complex reasons, our culture allows "economy" to mean only "money economy." It equates success and even goodness with monetary…
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Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and whats a taboo and whats not in terms of content,…
— Richard Serra
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Two-point-seven percent unemployment equates to -- everybody who wants to work is working. It equates to full employment.
— Betty Williams
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Never, however, do I take shortcuts. There is not path of least resistance in my training. What I do equates…
— Dean Karnazes
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Nurses have new and expanding roles. They are case managers, helping patients navigate the maze of health care choices and…
— Judi Evans
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Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common…
— Christopher Lasch
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As a physician and a U.S. senator, I have warned since the very beginning about many troubling aspects of Mr.…
— John Barrasso
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Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; making money is the by-product of our guiding purpose. If you're…
— Warren Buffett
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Current cant equates fantasy with escapism, and current fashion would have it that fantasy is both easy to read and…
— Ellen Kushner
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Because the culture we breathe and work in rushes against rest. It equates our worth with production and wealth and…
— Mary E. DeMuth
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There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new,…
— Barbara Amiel
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