“Us with our busy, busy little lives, finding no better way to pass our years than in competitive disdain.” — Iain Banks, Consider Phlebas
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“One hundred idiots make idiotic plans and carry them out. All but one justly fail. The hundredth idiot, whose plan succeeded through pure luck, is immediately convinced he’s a genius.” — Iain Banks, Matter
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“While persistence offers no guarantees, it does give ‘luck’ a chance to operate.” — Tom Shippey, The Road to Middle-Earth
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“Apparently I am what is known as an Unreliable Narrator, though of course if you believe everything you’re told you deserve whatever you get.” — Iain Banks, Transition
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“I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.” — Iain Banks, The Bridge
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“Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place.” — Iain Banks, Consider Phlebas
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“People were always sorry. Sorry they had done what they had done, sorry they were doing what they were doing, sorry they were going to do what they were going to do; but they still did whatever it is. The sorrow never stopped them; it just made them feel better. And so the sorrow never stopped.” — Iain Banks, Against a Dark Background
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“One should never mistake pattern … for meaning.” — Iain Banks, The Hydrogen Sonata
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“Mocking the wisdom that comes with age is a fit sport only for those who expect never to attain much of it themselves.” — Iain Banks, Inversions
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“You can draw the blinds in a brothel, but people still know what you’re doing.” — Iain Banks, Inversions
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