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Iain Menzies Banks, né le 16 février 1954 à Dunfermline dans le Fife et mort le 9 juin 2013 , est un écrivain écossais qui publie ses romans grand-public sous le nom de Iain Banks et ses romans de science-fiction sous le nom de Iain M. Banks. Il a étudié l'anglais et la philosophie à l'université de Stirling. En 2009 il devient membre de la Royal Society of Literature. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. février 1954 – 9. juin 2013
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Iain Banks: 139 citations0 J'aime

Iain Banks: Citations en anglais

“The youth was a cretin, and didn’t even realize that he was.
He could think of no more disastrous combination.”

Iain Banks Culture series

Source: Culture series, Use of Weapons (1990), Chapter V (p. 303).

“He was tall and very dark-skinned and he had fabulously blond hair and a voice that could raise bumps on your skin at a hundred meters, or, better still, millimeters.”

Iain Banks Culture series

Source: Culture series, Excession (1996), Chapter 5 “Kiss the Blade” section IV (p. 151).

“Quettil, it doesn’t matter,” the King said airily, waving one hand. “I prefer accuracy to flattery.”

Iain Banks Culture series

Source: Culture series, Inversions (1998), Chapter 9 (p. 158)

““You like music, Mr. Gurgeh?” Hamin asked, leaning over to the man.
Gurgeh nodded. “Well, a little does no harm.””

Iain Banks Culture series

Source: Culture series, The Player of Games (1988), Chapter 2 (p. 277).

“Maybe it wasn’t anything remotely to do with religion, mysticism or metaphilosophy after all; maybe it was more banal; maybe it was just…accounting.”

Iain Banks Culture series

Source: Culture series, Excession (1996), Chapter 11 “Regarding Gravious” section VI (p. 364).

““I’m very sorry,” the drone said, without a trace of contrition.”

Iain Banks Culture series

Source: Culture series, The Player of Games (1988), Chapter 3 (p. 308).

“The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides.”

Iain Banks Culture series

Source: Culture series, Excession (1996), Chapter 3 “Uninvited Guests” section I (p. 66).

“What they had talked themselves into, they could be silent out of.”

Iain Banks Culture series

Source: Culture series, Use of Weapons (1990), Chapter IX (p. 157).

“There came a point when if a conspiracy was that powerful and subtle it became pointless to worry about it.”

Iain Banks Culture series

Source: Culture series, Excession (1996), Chapter 5 “Kiss the Blade” section III (p. 149).

“Perhaps my certainty is misplaced.”

Iain Banks Culture series

Epilogue (p. 399)
Culture series, Inversions (1998)

“Tishlin’s dubious look indicated he wasn’t totally convinced this phrase contributed enormously to the information-carrying capacity of the language.”

Iain Banks Culture series

Source: Culture series, Excession (1996), Chapter 2 “Not Invented Here” section II (p. 58).

“Beauty is something that disappears when you try to define it.”

Iain Banks

Source: Short fiction, The State of the Art (1991) “State of the Art” (p. 128)

“Some of us prefer history to legends, lady,” DeWar said heavily, “and sometimes everybody can be wrong.”

Iain Banks Culture series

Source: Culture series, Inversions (1998), Chapter 2 (p. 37)

“You can draw the blinds in a brothel, but people still know what you’re doing.”

Iain Banks Culture series

Source: Culture series, Inversions (1998), Chapter 4 (p. 69)

“Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.”

Iain Banks

“Piece” (p. 75)
Short fiction, The State of the Art (1991)

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