Look To Windward
A source page for quotes linked to Iain Banks.
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“The truth is the truth. You tell it even when it hurts or it loses value even when it doesn’t.”
Source: The Wasp Factory
“1/ Serene 2/ In a world full of troubles 3/ i.e. Doing nothing about it.”
Source: Stonemouth
Source: Whit
“Everything in here is true. Especially the bits I made up.”
Source: Raw Spirit
Source: Raw Spirit
Source: Raw Spirit
Source: The bridge
Source: Raw Spirit
Source: A Song of Stone
“Something in your voice tells me we approach the question of remuneration.”
Source: Use Of Weapons
“There are no gods, we are told, so I must make my own salvation.”
“You're a wicked man." "Thank you. It's taken years of diligent practice.”
Source: Use Of Weapons
“I am not being obtuse. You are being paranoid.”
Source: Excession
Source: The Player Of Games: A Culture Novel
Source: Use Of Weapons
“Political correctness is what right-wing bigots call what everybody else calls being polite”
Source: Dead Air
“One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them.”
Source: Inversions
Source: Surface Detail
“Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.”
“What is any achievement, however great it was, once time itself is dead?”
“I'm a devoted husband. That must strike you as totally deviant.”