There's an old Sysan saying that the soup of life is salty enough without adding tears to it.
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there is both fear and comfort to be drawn from devils--the fear speaks for itself, the comfort comes from being able to absolve oneself of responsibility for one's actions.
Iain BanksMots clés fear sin responsibility comfort the-devil devils fault
Oh, no, Cameron; I believe we're born free of sin and free of guilt. It's just that we all catch it, eventually. There are no clean rooms for morality, Cameron, no boys in bubbles kept in a guilt-free sterile zone. There are monasteries and nunneries, and people become recluses, but even that's just an elegant way of giving up. Washing one's hand didn't work two thousand years ago, and it doesn't work today. Involvement, Cameron, connection.
Iain BanksMots clés morality
I switched the light out again. The room was totally dark, not even the starlight showing while my eyes adjusted. Perhaps I would ask for one of those LED alarm radios, though I’m very fond of my old brass alarm clock. Once I tied a wasp tot the striking-surface of each of the copper-coloured bells on top, where the little hammer would hit them in the morning when the alarm went off.
I always wake up before the alarm goes, so I got to watch.
Half the fun of writing a novel is finding out from other people later on what you actually meant.
Iain BanksMots clés writing-process
I killed little Esmerelda because I felt I owed it to myself and to the world in general. I had, after all, accounted for two male children and thus done womankind something of a statistical favour. If I really had the courage of my convictions, I reasoned, I ought to redress the balance at least slightly. My cousin was simply the easiest and most obvious target.
Iain BanksMots clés murder misogyny misanthropy
We're not in prison, we're not junkies and we're not Young Tories...it's no small achievement.
Iain BanksThere are no gods, we are told, so I must make my own salvation.
Iain BanksMots clés inspirational salvation gods
Looking at me, you'd never guess I'd killed three people. It isn't fair.
Iain BanksMots clés fair looks-can-be-decieving
A death is always exciting, always makes you realise how alive you are, how vulnerable but so-far-lucky; but the death of somebody close gives you a good excuse to go a bit crazy for a while and do things that would otherwise be inexcusable. What delight to behave really badly and still get loads of sympathy!
Iain BanksMots clés death
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