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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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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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I'm from out of town, he said breezily. This was true. He'd never been within a hundred light-years of the place.
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Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.
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Truth, I have learned, differs for everybody. Just as no two people ever see a rainbow in exactly the same place - and yet both most certainly see it, while the person seemingly standing right underneath it does not see it at all - so truth is a question of where one stands, and the direction one is looking in at the time.
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Any theory which causes solipsism to seem just as likely an explanation for the phenomena it seeks to describe ought to be held in the utmost suspicion.
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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.
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I'm an only child so am happy with my own company and I don't really get lonely.
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I think we need politicians we need people who want to serve.
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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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In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.
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What is any achievement, however great it was, once time itself is dead?
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Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
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