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What is all your studying worth, all your learning, all your knowledge, if it doesn't lead to wisdom? And what's wisdom but knowing what is right, and what is the right thing to do?

Iain Banks

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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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You're a wicked man. Thank you. It's taken years of diligent practice.
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What is any achievement, however great it was, once time itself is dead?
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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 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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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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Well, he sighed to no one in particular, and looked up into yet another alien sky. Here we are again.
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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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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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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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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 wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!
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Torture is such a slippery slope as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.
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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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In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.
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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 am not being obtuse. You are being paranoid.
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Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.
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