Iain Banks - Gurgeh Quotes

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Is all this serious? Gurgeh said, turning, amused, from the screen to the drone.
Deadly serious, Flere-Imsaho told him.
Gurgeh laughed and shook his head. He thought the common people must be remarkably stupid if they believed all this nonsense.

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You like music, Mr. Gurgeh? Hamin asked, leaning over to the man.
Gurgeh nodded. Well, a little does no harm.

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One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them. We here are not children, Mr. Gurgeh. Hamin waved the pipestem round the tables of people. Rules and laws exist only because we take pleasure in doing what they forbid, but as long as most of the people obey such proscriptions most of the time, they have done their job; blind obedience would imply we are—ha! —Hamin chuckled and pointed at the drone with the pipe— no more than robots!

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The news team, and Hamin, seemed well pleased. You should have been an actor, Jernau Gurgeh, Hamin told him.
Gurgeh assumed this was intended as a compliment.

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