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If this goes badly and I make a crater, I want it named after me!

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Iain Banks
Age: 59 †
Born: 1954
Born: February 16
Died: 2013
Died: June 9
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Philosopher
Science Fiction Writer
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Iain M. Banks
Iain Menzies Banks
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I held my crotch, closed my eyes and repeated my secret catechism.
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You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.
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He knew all the answers. Everybody did. Everybody knew everything and everybody knew all the answers. It was just that the enemy seemed to know better ones.
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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.
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I think we need politicians we need people who want to serve.
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Hersesy is denying the word of God, and the word of God is much more reliably expressed in the natural world as it’s revealed through reason and science than in what I have heard described wonderfully as “the giant book of Jewish fairy stories.
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I love writing and can't imagine not being able to do it. I want an easy life and if it had been difficult I wouldn't be doing it. I do admire writers who do it even though it costs them.
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Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.
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In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.
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