Iain Banks Quotes
I just took [my cancer diagnosis] as bad luck, basically. It did strike me almost immediately, my atheist sort of thing kicked in and I thought "ha, if I was a God-botherer, I'd be thinking, why me God? What have I done to deserve this?" and I thought at least I'm free of that, at least I can simply treat it as bad luck and get on with it.
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Indeed, our British friends have decided to leave us - which is very sad for all of us - but life goes on, and the European Union as well goes on.
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I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
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We all should face some failures in life and learn from them. We should accept it and move on.
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I think when I first started cycling, it wasn't that popular with kids. I felt almost embarrassed going down the road on my road bike; I didn't want my friends to see me because it was embarrassing.
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Cerrone is a great opponent. The guy won eight fights straight.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
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Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
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I love the free spirit in London.
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It is the greatest injustice done to Mondrian that people who are plastically blind see only decorative design instead of the plastic perfection which characterizes his work. The whole De Stijl group from which Mondrian's art was derived must be considered a protest against such blindness.
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There are lots of ways to work together.
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I didn't harbor a huge desire to become a chef until I graduated from college.
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I'm a writer; as soon as I imagine what would happen if I found the fountain of youth, it turns into a dystopia in my head.
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I just took [my cancer diagnosis] as bad luck, basically. It did strike me almost immediately, my atheist sort of thing kicked in and I thought "ha, if I was a God-botherer, I'd be thinking, why me God? What have I done to deserve this?" and I thought at least I'm free of that, at least I can simply treat it as bad luck and get on with it.
