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Money is a sign of poverty.
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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 numbered.
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But such consummate skill, such ability, such adaptability, such numbing ruthlessness, such a use of weapons when anything could become weapon . . .
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Escape is a commodity like anything else.
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I'm a fucking starship; I'm allowed to cheat.
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Mocking the wisdom that comes with age is a fit sport only for those who expect never to attain much of it themselves
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The Fate had moved, or had been moved, thirty light years in less than a picosecond.
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Living either never has any point, or is always its own point; being a naturally cheery soul, I lean towards the latter.
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I had nightmares I thought were really horrible until I woke up and remembered what reality was at the moment.
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Division was the only order.
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He might come in useful.'
'Yeah. So's a broken leg if you want to kick yourself in the back of the head. — Iain M. Banks
'Yeah. So's a broken leg if you want to kick yourself in the back of the head. — Iain M. Banks
I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!
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I'm from out of town, he said breezily. This was true. He'd never been within a hundred light-years of the place.
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Patience can be a means of letting matters mature to a proper state for action, not just a way of letting time slip away.
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Faith is belief without reason; we operate on reason and nothing but. I have zero faith in my crew, just absolute confidence.
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Thing about emergencies," he said, sounding weary. "Rarely occur when they'd be convenient.
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one may be partially owned by another or others by having to sell one's labor or talents to somebody with the means to buy them. In
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Neeporlax presented something of a contrast.
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the rich just bribe their way out. So yes, as far as the rulers are concerned, it works.
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Conscious cooperation was more efficient than feral competition?
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Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.
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There came a point when if a conspiracy was that powerful and subtle it became pointless to worry about it.
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Because I do enjoy winning, because I do have something nobody can copy, something nobody else can have; I'm me; I'm one of the best.
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So basically you're sticking around to watch us all fuck up ?"
"Yes. It's one of life's few guaranteed constants. — Iain M. Banks
"Yes. It's one of life's few guaranteed constants. — Iain M. Banks
The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.
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He thought the common people must be remarkably stupid if they believed all this nonsense.
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I had high hopes for that girl, but too much of that sort of nonsense and I think her intelligence will explosively dismantle
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His jaw was slack and his mouth open, and he wondered if perhaps he would drown eventually; drowned by the falling rain.
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Sometimes what goes without saying is best said anyway.
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Us with our busy, busy little lives, finding no better way to pass our years than in competitive disdain.
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I don't need a tie for gravitas.
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Strange that people are happy to adopt epithets they would fight to the death to throw off had they been imposed.
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Myself," said the drone sniffily, "I have never been able to see what virtue there could be in something that was eighty percent water.
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Apparently I am what is known as an Unreliable Narrator, though of course if you believe everything you're told you deserve whatever you get.
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Holse wasn't about to get involved in any theological arguments. He looked serious and nodded, hoping this would do.
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That's why you can destroy them, win an argument, prove the other person wrong, and still they believe what they did in the first place." He
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The History Of The Universe In Three Words
CHAPTER ONE
Bang!
CHAPTER TWO
sssss
CHAPTER THREE
crunch.
THE END — Iain M. Banks
CHAPTER ONE
Bang!
CHAPTER TWO
sssss
CHAPTER THREE
crunch.
THE END — Iain M. Banks
In life you hoped to do what you could but mostly you did what you were told and that was the end of it.
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But then, as she knew too well, the more fondly we imagine something will last forever, the more ephemeral it often proves to be.
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The good soldier did as he was told, and if he had any sense at all volunteered for nothing, especially promotion.
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The smell was that of a sewer under an abattoir.
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Twice, in the depths of the sleeping ship, he almost killed somebody. One of those times, it was somebody else,
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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.
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The birds disturbed from the network of waterways beneath the barges wheeled in the sky, calling plaintively.
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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.
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had nightmares I thought were really horrible until I woke up and remembered what reality was like at the moment,
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A guilty system recognizes no innocents.
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Common misconception that; that fun is relaxing. If it is, you're not doing it right.
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All you ever were was a little bit of the universe, thinking to itself. Very specific; this bit, here, right now.
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This isn't Ospin! These aren't the Dataversities!
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We are a race prone to monsters, she thought, and when we produce one we worship it.
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Theirs is a civilization of deprivation; ours of finely balanced satisfaction ever teetering on the brink of excess.
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just one more species, which would grow and expand and then, finding the plateau phase all non-suicidal species eventually arrived at, settle down.
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Some problems were generational; you just had to wait for the relevant elders to die off and be replaced with more progressive types.
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When in Rome; burn it.
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He felt great. spa'dassins digladiate; ziffidae and xebecs contend! gol-iard dunking!
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then there's nothing worse I can wish on you than to be exactly the fuckhead you so obviously are.
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A Mind could hold any set of facts and opinions it wanted without having to tell anybody what it knew or thought, or why.
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But just because something does not have an ending doesn't mean it doesn't have a conclusion.
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What's one more meaningless act of violence on that zoo of a planet?
It would be appropriate.
When in Rome; burn it. — Iain M. Banks
It would be appropriate.
When in Rome; burn it. — Iain M. Banks
bipedal, oxygen-breathing carboniform
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Obsession is just what those too timorous to follow an idea through to its logical conclusion call determination.
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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
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The Idirans themselves had evolved on their planet Idir as the top monster from a whole planetful of monsters.
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Well, in the end, there was no helping this. Sometimes you just had to adopt the attitude summed up by, Too bad.
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The bomb lives only as it is falling.
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The trick, he supposed, was never to lose sight of the theoretical possibility while not for a moment taking the idea remotely seriously.
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One believed what one was told to believe, what it made sense to believe. Unless one was a foreigner, of course, or a philosopher.
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It was rude, insulting and frequently infuriating, but it made such a refreshing change from the awful politeness of most people.
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You could find out most things, if you knew the right questions to ask. Even if you didn't, you could still find out a lot.
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Bob-nodded toward the open module door. After you.
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