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Iain Banks Quotes

Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: scottish
Birth: February 16, 1954 - June 9, 2013

Topics

Animal Reading Smell More Things

Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools.

Nature Poetry Tools Unique Own Form

Our past absolutely defines everything we do in the present. We can't help it. We're made by the events of our past, so there's no escaping it.

Past Present Help Events Everything

What's wrong with wanting the best for everybody?

Best Wrong Wanting Everybody

A place of freedom is the best place to have the most creativity.

Freedom Best Creativity Place Most

Here's the problem of the Democratic Party... There's no Breitbart. The problem in the Democratic Party? They haven't had a civil war.

War Problem Party Civil War Here

Style offers concrete rules you can follow. You can use it as a resource rather than a barrier to feeling good about yourself.

Good Style Yourself Feeling Good You

I started athletics in 1999, throwing discus and shot put. I didn't tell my family when I started boxing.

Family Boxing Tell Started Athletics

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

Art Together Architecture Building

There is nothing terribly wrong with my face, even if some of its parts aren't very inspiring.

Face Wrong Nothing Even Some Very

Musical themes developing is a lot of what classical music is based on, and exposition and recapitulation - these kinds of things I find oppressive.

Music Find Classical Music Things

The most effective prayers are usually the simple prayers.

Simple Prayers Most Effective

Volunteering has been undervalued in Britain for a long time. Often it has been seen as a kind of cut-price, amateur version of work that would be better done by the state. When politicians speak about it, people hear in the background the sound of budgets being cut.

Work Time People Speak Better Long

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