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Want to bet on it?"
"Thank you, no. I believe gambling to be a pastime for the weak-minded.

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Iain Menzies Banks (February 16, 1954 – June 9, 2013), officially Iain Banks, was a Scottish writer. As Iain M. Banks he wrote science fiction; as Iain Banks he wrote literary fiction.

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