Iain Banks Quotes
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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I'm in semi-retirement, but what am I going to retire to? I don't ride horses, I don't golf anymore. I shoot a game of pool every now and then.
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I was a teenager with braces and into sporty dresses with bright colors and cut-outs. For awhile, I really experimented with what I wanted to do. Some really extreme things, I recall.
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First time I walked out on the Opry stage, Vince Gill was there. He kind of 'daddied' me through the whole thing. My knees were knocking. I walked out there, and I was literally shaking. They say it's the spirits or the ghosts. And out of respect for that whole establishment, I was really really nervous.
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Literary dementia seems dated now, but there was a time when a month in the funny farm was as de rigueur for budding writers as an M.F.A. is now. To be sent away was a badge of honor; to undergo electroshock, a glorious martyrdom.
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There is not a separate God for each person. There is one universal intelligence flowing through all of us.
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I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.
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'The Hunger Games' has something for everyone.
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Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.
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I started gigging when I was about 16, and I was way too young to be in the clubs.
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In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of the march.
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Doing 'Malcolm and Eddie' was probably the foremost miserable years of my life.
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Nevertheless during these two seasons, Chapman impressed me a lot because he had the faculty to pull himself out of the most critical situations.
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Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?
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I was an adventurer, and I got married a few times. I kept trying to find a relationship as good as my parents'.
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I haven't heard Obama ask us for our consent when he's trying to ram Obamacare down our throats.
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The European way is also the United Nations' way. And we believe in the U.N. because we believe in the same principles, in the same values, and our communities are built upon the same fundamental ideals.
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Our Prophet was a radical too- he fought against the injustices of his community and challenged the feudal order of his society, so they called him a radical. So what? We should be proud of that!
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We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities.
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Life is only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll all get home safely. But you tried and you did not get home safely. You did not get home at all.
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If I lead the field in any way, it is in the area of curricula development, study guides and other teaching materials.
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I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.
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I am not being obtuse. You are being paranoid.
