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Money is a sign of poverty. — Iain M. Banks

All reality seemed to hinge on those infinitesimal bundles of meaning. — Iain M. Banks

Mocking the wisdom that comes with age is a fit sport only for those who expect never to attain much of it themselves — Iain M. Banks

Who you are is less important than what you seem. — Iain Pears

The Fate had moved, or had been moved, thirty light years in less than a picosecond. — Iain M. Banks

The humble have once again exhibited more insight than the exalted — Iain W. Provan

I had nightmares I thought were really horrible until I woke up and remembered what reality was at the moment. — Iain M. Banks

Division was the only order. — Iain M. Banks

I can show you the path but I can not walk it for you. — Master Iain Armstrong

You were inside my body, but somehow 'tis my soul you touched, Iain Mackinnon. — Pamela Clare

Light is all memory. — Iain Sinclair

Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying. — Iain Banks

There was no dependency. Dependency equates to seriousness. — Iain Reid

An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys. — Iain Sinclair

Look on the happy side, think of the good things. Hadn't it been clever? Yes, it had. — Iain Banks

The faster we walk, the more ground we lose. — Iain Sinclair

Looking at me, you'd never guess I'd killed three people. It isn't fair. — Iain Banks

I think almost every political leader is always told that the next speech they make is the most crucial one. — Iain Duncan Smith

You like music, Mr. Gurgeh?" Hamin asked, leaning over to the man. Gurgeh nodded. "Well, a little does no harm. — Iain Banks

All reality is a game. — Iain Banks

A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate. — Iain Duncan Smith

I'm an only child so am happy with my own company and I don't really get lonely. — Iain Banks

One thing I had learnt, the last person you should ask for a solution is the author. If he knew where he was going, he'd stop dead in his tracks. — Iain Sinclair

Let me know, Iain." "Let you know what?" "If you're going to keep her or not." "And if I'm not?" "Then I am. — Julie Garwood

My personal view is always I'm in favour of anything that gives parliament a greater say. That's after all what we were elected for. — Iain Duncan Smith

The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete. — Iain McGilchrist

had nightmares I thought were really horrible until I woke up and remembered what reality was like at the moment, — Iain M. Banks

perhaps as profoundly as the original had in 1688.2 — Iain Macwhirter

The kind of world I'm endlessly going on about is pretty well doomed, but nevertheless I think there are recesses of it worth celebrating. — Iain Sinclair

Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. — Iain Duncan Smith

I knew I might die, but I was prepared to risk that; it was almost romantic. Somehow it never occurred to me it might entail privation and suffering. — Iain M. Banks

Balance is if you try hard, you work hard then the rewards are in balance with what you put in and what is available. — Iain Duncan Smith

I did enough algebra when I was at university, so I am sick and tired of that. — Iain Dowie

Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as a heap of intrinsically meaningless fragments. — Iain McGilchrist

All you ever were was a little bit of the universe, thinking to itself. Very specific; this bit, here, right now. — Iain M. Banks

Sometimes I touch the things you used to touch, looking for echoes of your fingers. — Iain Thomas

The good soldier did as he was told, and if he had any sense at all volunteered for nothing, especially promotion. — Iain M. Banks

The conversation between your fingers and someone else's skin. This is the most important discussion you can ever have. — Iain Thomas

A guilty system recognizes no innocents. — Iain M. Banks

Common misconception that; that fun is relaxing. If it is, you're not doing it right. — Iain M. Banks

Political correctness is what right-wing bigots call what everybody else calls being polite — Iain Banks

The birds disturbed from the network of waterways beneath the barges wheeled in the sky, calling plaintively. — Iain M. Banks

You really are being quite foolish to smoke. — Iain Glen

The problem with the chemicals in my head is they lead to feelings in the rest of me. — Iain S. Thomas

Problem is, finding a killer in the woods is a lot like trying to find a needle in a haystack. — Iain Rob Wright

'Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa. — Iain Banks

Art and science are made when people are terrified that they are going to die. (about "Arcadia" by Iain Pears) — Jen Campbell

Individual is obsolete. That's why life is so comfortable for us all. We don't matter, so we're safe. No one person can have any real effect anymore. — Iain M. Banks

As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time. — Iain Glen

The sentence, having fumbled to a petering end, she too left. — Iain McKinnon

Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling. — Iain Banks

The smell was that of a sewer under an abattoir. — Iain M. Banks

I knew salesmen, they made good murderers. — Iain Pears

The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent. — Iain McGilchrist

Twice, in the depths of the sleeping ship, he almost killed somebody. One of those times, it was somebody else, — Iain M. Banks

same time, there is a danger with being too comfortable proclaiming the wrath of God. In — Iain M. Duguid

Stick to journalism, Mr Cort, where you never have to understand anything. — Iain Pears

I am crumbling in sync with old Hackney. — Iain Sinclair

Andy Johnson is quick, brave and strong and he will get goals, — Iain Dowie

For men are held above their fellows by the gossamer of reputation, which is so soft and fragile a breath can blow it away. — Iain Pears

I am not being obtuse. You are being paranoid. — Iain Banks

You know in my own area of Waltham Forest, we've had many murders as a result of the gang violence and often innocent bystanders get caught up in it. — Iain Duncan Smith

In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed. — Iain Banks

And I confess that, like a child, I cry. Ah, self-pity; I think we are at our most honest and sincere when we feel sorry for ourselves. — Iain Banks

You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly. — Iain Glen

Civilization depends on continually making the effort, of never giving in. It needs to be cared for by men of goodwill, protected from the dark. — Iain Pears

I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books! — Iain Banks

We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000. — Iain McGilchrist

just one more species, which would grow and expand and then, finding the plateau phase all non-suicidal species eventually arrived at, settle down. — Iain M. Banks

Some problems were generational; you just had to wait for the relevant elders to die off and be replaced with more progressive types. — Iain M. Banks

When in Rome; burn it. — Iain M. Banks

He felt great. spa'dassins digladiate; ziffidae and xebecs contend! gol-iard dunking! — Iain M. Banks

Men of the cloth live in this monologue, it is their due: nobody talks back to a pulpit. — Iain Sinclair

A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens. — Iain Banks

then there's nothing worse I can wish on you than to be exactly the fuckhead you so obviously are. — Iain M. Banks

Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions. — Iain Pears

Would ya like to
" Iain paused, shocked as the pretty woman turned and hurried away from him. To himself, he finished, "Get a drink with me? — Michelle M. Pillow

People work hard. — Iain Duncan Smith

...drunk enough on earth's liquors to relish the prospect of the knife. — Iain Sinclair

If you are lucky, one day you'll get the chance to have your life defined by how much you loved and were loved by someone else. — Iain S. Thomas

I hope you never hate anything longer than you need to. — Iain S. Thomas

Escape is a consumer goods like another — Iain Banks

I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness. — Iain Banks

it was the night when people got paid and didn't have to work the next day, and so by tradition went out to get drunk and into fights. Then — Iain M. Banks

Juan de Grijalva, coincidentally the first European to smoke on continental American soil, — Iain Gately

But then, as she knew too well, the more fondly we imagine something will last forever, the more ephemeral it often proves to be. — Iain M. Banks

[I]f I suffered only one fool gladly, I assure you it would be you. — Iain M. Banks

This isn't Ospin! These aren't the Dataversities! — Iain M. Banks

I think we need politicians; we need people who want to serve. — Iain Banks

We are a race prone to monsters, she thought, and when we produce one we worship it. — Iain M. Banks

The number one priority now is reducing the deficit that they [Labour] left us - the biggest deficit since the Second World War. — Iain Duncan Smith

Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them. — Iain Banks

My gratitude extends beyond the limits of my capacity to express it, — Iain Banks

After doing extensive research, I can definitely tell you that single malt whiskies are good to drink. — Iain Banks

I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven. — Iain Banks

jammed inside the bastard for three hours.'). And that bridge, the bridge . . . have to make a pilgrimage to — Iain Banks

I monitor the food my players eat on a Friday night. It's no good if they've had two vindaloos and a kebab. — Iain Dowie

I don't crave Hollywood. — Iain Glen

The suicide hour of cold coffee and alien voices on the radio. — Iain Sinclair

Theirs is a civilization of deprivation; ours of finely balanced satisfaction ever teetering on the brink of excess. — Iain M. Banks