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Iain Banks on Truth

1954–2013 Scotland

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The truth is the truth. You tell it even when it hurts or it loses value even when it doesn’t.

The Hydrogen Sonata (2013)

The Real – with its vast volumes of nothing between the planets, stars, systems and galaxies – was basically mostly vacuum; an averaged near-nothing incapable of true complexity due to its inescapable impoverishment of structure and the sheer overwhelming majority of nothingness over substance.

The Hydrogen Sonata (2013)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Iain Banks (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.