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Iain Banks

"I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!"

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Amber Hurdle

"If a moneyed man had a "corny mind, a flatterer would immediately start chasing him like a hungry hen!"

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Amber Hurdle

"An honest government is the childish dream of the gullible men!"

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Amber Hurdle

"A country where women are not free has no chance ever to be something good and respectable!"

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"It is better to go near the truth and be imprisoned than to stay with the wrong and roam about freely, master Galilei. In fact, getting attached to falsity is terrible slavery, and real freedom is only next to the right."

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"Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bonds."

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Amber Hurdle

"Injustice in the end produces independence."

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"The Jews are an ignorant and barbarous people, who have long united the most sordid avarice with the most detestable superstition and the most invincible hatred for every people by whom they are tolerated and enriched."

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Amber Hurdle

"Society therefore is an ancient as the world."

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Amber Hurdle

"But these were essentially the accoutrements that appeal to all people who are not actually rich but who want to look rich, though all they manage to do is look like each other: damasks, ebony, plants, rugs and bronzes, anything dark and gleaming-everything that all people of a certain class affect so as to be like all other people of a certain class. And his arrangements looked so much like everyone else's that they were unremarkable, though he saw them as something truly distinctive."

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"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."

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Iain Banks
"I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!"

Society

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Iain Banks
"You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really."

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Iain Banks
"As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book."

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Iain Banks
"Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state."

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Iain Banks
"I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness."

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Iain Banks
"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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Iain Banks
"As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of."

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Iain Banks
"By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films."

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Iain Banks
"I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!"

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