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Quotes from Feersum Endjinn — Iain Banks

1954–2013 Scotland

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7 quotes

Faith is the eye that sees nothing and rejoices in it.

Feersum Endjinn (1994)

Itz a very strainje feelin wakin up alive when u wer fooly expectin 2 b ded.

Feersum Endjinn (1994)

“Want to bet on it?”
“Thank you, no. I believe gambling to be a pastime for the weak-minded.”

Feersum Endjinn (1994)

The first time he saw somebody else he felt a mixture of emotions; fear, joy, expectation and a kind of disappointment that this wilderness was not his alone.

Feersum Endjinn (1994)

Not wide asleep; fast awake!

Feersum Endjinn (1994)

Gadfium found these meetings exasperating; they were supposed to keep people up to date with developments and help facilitate actions which might be of use in the current emergency, but so far all they ever seemed to do was pander to some of the attendees’ feelings of self-importance and produce vast amounts of talk that substituted for deeds rather than leading to them.

Feersum Endjinn (1994)

The King liked happy endings. You couldn’t blame the ancients for coming up with unhappy conclusions so often—they each spent all their single short life waiting either for oblivion or some absurd after-death torture—but that didn’t mean you had to stick faithfully to their paralyzed paradigms and ruin a good story with a depressing dénouement.

Feersum Endjinn (1994)

Attribution

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