Any such inklings were like a few scattered grains of truth… - Iain Banks

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Any such inklings were like a few scattered grains of truth dissolved in an ocean of nonsense, and were anyway generally inextricably bound up with patently paranoid ravings which served only to devalue the small amounts of sense and pertinence with which they were associated.

Iain Banks

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About Iain Banks

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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Pen Names: Iain M. Banks

Alternative Names: Iain Menzies Banks

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Meaning is everywhere. There is always meaning. Or at least all things show a disturbing tendency to have meaning ascribed to them when intelligent creatures are present. It’s just that there’s no final Meaning, with a capital M. Though the illusion that there might be is comforting for a certain class of mind.

No, Geis, it doesn't wear off. Like certain exotic diseases, and unlike love, synchroneurobonding is for life."
Geis lowered his eyes. "You weren't always so cynical about love."
"As they say; ignorance pays.

How are you?"
"I am here."
"Apart from that," she said levelly.
"There is no apart from that.

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