That seems obsessive." "Meticulous care can seem so to those unwilling to recognise it for its true worth. - Iain Banks

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That seems obsessive."
"Meticulous care can seem so to those unwilling to recognise it for its true worth.

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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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The sheer wastefulness of it all distressed him. He was older and wiser now and more used to the way that things really worked being more important than the way they appeared to (unless you were talking about public perception, of course, when it was the other way around).

If you have any helpful suggestions I’d be pleased to hear them. If all you can do is make snide insinuations then it would probably benefit all concerned if you bestowed the fruits of your prodigious wit on someone with the spare time to give them the consideration they doubtless deserve.

All of which might make things a little difficult operationally

Understood. Life is limitations.

And glibness, patently, on occasion, too. Your pardon, but I sense motions being gone through.

On occasion, a superfluity of assiduousness can be vulgar.

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