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Quotes from Consider Phlebas — Iain Banks

1954–2013 Scotland

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Empathize with stupidity and you’re halfway to thinking like an idiot.

Consider Phlebas (1987)

Pity they didn’t devote a little more ingenuity to staying alive rather than conducting mass slaughter as efficiently as possible.

Consider Phlebas (1987)

Something in your voice tells me we approach the question of remuneration.

Consider Phlebas (1987)

The underlying point held; experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place.

Consider Phlebas (1987)

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