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The History Of The Universe In Three Words CHAPTER ONE Bang! CHAPTER TWO sssss CHAPTER THREE crunch. THE END

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Iain Banks
Age: 59 †
Born: 1954
Born: February 16
Died: 2013
Died: June 9
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Iain M. Banks
Iain Menzies Banks
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Writing is like everything else: the more you do it the better you get. Don't try to perfect as you go along, just get to the end of the damn thing. Accept imperfections. Get it finished and then you can go back. If you try to polish every sentence there's a chance you'll never get past the first chapter.
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I'm a devoted husband. That must strike you as totally deviant.
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I held my crotch, closed my eyes and repeated my secret catechism.
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I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.
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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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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
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You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history
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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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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.
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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.
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There's an old Sysan saying that the soup of life is salty enough without adding tears to it.
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Well, he sighed to no one in particular, and looked up into yet another alien sky. Here we are again.
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