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Famous Iain Banks Quotes
“There's an old Sysan saying that the soup of life is salty enough without adding tears to it.”
“It was the day my grandmother exploded.”
“I held my crotch, closed my eyes and repeated my secret catechism.”
“Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot.”
“I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk.”
“My gratitude extends beyond the limits of my capacity to express it.”
“It's a library, only the stupid or the evil are afraid of those”
“One should never regret one's excesses, only one's failures of nerve.”
“If this goes badly and I make a crater, I want it named after me!”
“The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.”
“Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling.”