Iain Banks - Thought Quotes

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How depressing, the Sleeper Service thought. That it should all come down to this; the person with the biggest stick prevails.

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He looked up from it at the stars again, and the view was warped and distorted by something in his eyes, which at first he thought was rain.

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She supposed she ought to feel impressed that Genar-Hofoen was sticking to his principles in the face of imminent death—and she did feel a little admiration—but mostly she just thought he was being stupid.

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Oh, they never lie. They dissemble, evade, prevaricate, confound, confuse, distract, obscure, subtly misrepresent and willfully misunderstand with what often appears to be a positively gleeful relish and are generally perfectly capable of contriving to give one an utterly unambiguous impression of their future course of action while in fact intending to do exactly the opposite, but they never lie. Perish the thought.

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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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Here, in the bare dark face of night
A calm unhurried eye draws sight
—We see in what we think we fear
The cloudings of our thought made clear

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I'm saying with very few exceptions nothing lasts forever, and among those exceptions, no work or thought of man is numbered.

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