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Dead Air' is full of rants it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty mea culpa.

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Iain Banks
Age: 59 †
Born: 1954
Born: February 16
Died: 2013
Died: June 9
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Science Fiction Writer
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Iain M. Banks
Iain Menzies Banks
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I deliberately keep myself apart from a lot of stuff I don't Tweet, I don't do Facebook, I don't blog, and that's largely because I spend my working life staring at a screen and hitting a keyboard, I am trying to cut down on that, not increase it.
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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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Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
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My gratitude extends beyond the limits of my capacity to express it.
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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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Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
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One of your American professors said that to study religion was merely to know the mind of man, but if one truly wanted to know the mind of God, you must study physics.
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There has seldom if ever a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression of this simple fact there is never a scarcity of idiots.
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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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The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put profits before people, money before morality, dividends before decency, fanaticism before fairness, and our own trivial comforts before the unspeakable agonies of others
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You're a wicked man. Thank you. It's taken years of diligent practice.
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The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.
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What is any achievement, however great it was, once time itself is dead?
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