Iain Banks Quotes - Page 4

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• I am, as I have always been, of the opinion that while the niceties of normal moral constraints should be our guides, they must not be our masters.

  Iain Banks

  Normal, Morality, Opinion

  "Excession (The Culture, Book 5)". Book by Iain Banks (Chapter 8 "Killing Time", Section VII, p. 269), 1996.

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

  Iain Banks

  Machines, Arguing, Consciousness

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• Anyway, you can't leave her like that. You can't do that to the woman. She doesn't deserve it; nobody does. You don't belong to her and she doesn't belong to you, but you're both part of each other; if she got up and left now and walked away and you never saw each other again for the rest of your lives, and you lived an ordinary waking life for another fifty years, even so on your deathbed you would still know she was part of you.

  Iain Banks

  Years, Waking Life, Ordinary

  Iain Banks (1986). “The bridge”

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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.

  Iain Banks

  Light, Years, Towns

  Iain M. Banks (2008). “Use Of Weapons”, p.103, Hachette UK

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• Escape is a consumer goods like another

  Iain Banks

  Goods, Consumers

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• It looks perverted and wasteful to us, but then one thing that empires are not about is the efficient use of resources and the spread of happiness; both are typically accomplished despite the economic short-circuiting - corruption and favoritism, mostly- endemic to the system.

  Iain Banks

  Looks, Use, Empires

  "The Player of Games (The Culture, Book 2)". Book by Iain Banks (Chapter 1, p. 91), 1988.

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• Here, in the bare dark face of night A calm unhurried eye draws sight We see in what we think we fear The cloudings of our thought made clear

  Iain Banks

  Eye, Dark, Night

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• My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.

  Iain Banks

  Important, Fiction, Revolution

  Interview with Ken Livingstone, www.newstatesman.com. September 17, 2009.

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• I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.

  Iain Banks

  Writing, Thinking, Stories

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• I held my crotch, closed my eyes and repeated my secret catechism.

  Iain Banks

  Eye, Secret, Catechism

  Iain Banks (2013). “The Wasp Factory: A Novel”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.

  Iain Banks

  Fun, Writing, Effort

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• -"Then what," Lededje asked, trying to keep her voice cold and not get caught up in the avatar´s obvious enthusiasm, "is making you smile about a disaster?" -"Well, first, I didn´t cause it! Nothing to do with me, hands clean. Always a bonus.

  Iain Banks

  Hands, Voice, Trying

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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 Banks

  Zoos, Rome, Violence

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• I think we need politicians; we need people who want to serve.

  Iain Banks

  Thinking, People, Needs

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• I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.

  Iain Banks

  Thinking, Blade Runner, Looks

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• I'm a devoted husband. That must strike you as totally deviant.

  Iain Banks

  Husband, Strikes, Deviants

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

  Iain Banks

  Lonely, Children, Only Child

  Interview With Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2008.

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

  Iain Banks

  Disagree

  Interview with Ken Livingstone, www.newstatesman.com.

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• 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

  Reading, Culture, Fiction

  "Sci-Fi Writer Iain Banks Talks Surface Detail's Hell, Creationist Heresy". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. October 15, 2010.

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• "One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them. We here are not children, Mr. Gurgeh." Hamin waved the pipestem round the tables of people. "Rules and laws exist only because we take pleasure in doing what they forbid, but as long as most of the people obey such proscriptions most of the time, they have done their job; blind obedience would imply we are - ha!" - Hamin chuckled and pointed at the drone with the pipe - "no more than robots!"

  Iain Banks

  Jobs, Children, Law

  "The Player of Games (The Culture, Book 2)". Book by Iain Banks (Chapter 2, p. 279), 1988.

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• I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story out there.

  Iain Banks

  Book, Writing, Trying

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• Even in my side of the world, I've been in publishing for what, 25 or 26 years, and it's gone from being a gentlemen's club to being a few big players, and it's very corporatised.

  Iain Banks

  Player, Years, Gentleman

  "Sci-Fi Writer Iain Banks Talks Surface Detail's Hell, Creationist Heresy". Interview with Michael Parsons, www.wired.com. October 15, 2010.

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• 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

  Falling In Love, Character, Males

  Interview with Ken Livingstone, www.newstatesman.com.

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• I've always loved Scotland, and I'm not a huge fan of big cities, to be honest. I like them to dip into for a bit, but I'm not sure I would want to live in one again.

  Iain Banks

  Cities, Scotland, Fans

  Interview with Ken Livingstone, www.newstatesman.com.

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

  Iain Banks

  Book, Air, Self

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