What did Iain Banks mean by: I think we need politicians; we need people who want to serve. - Iain Banks Author · Scotland Copy
+ My gratitude extends beyond the limits of my capacity to express it. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iain Banks, Capacity, Gratitude, Limits, 0 - Iain Banks Author · Scotland
+ What is any achievement, however great it was, once time itself is dead? Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iain Banks, Achieve, 0 - Iain Banks Author · Scotland
+ Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iain Banks, Scholar, 0 - Iain Banks Author · Scotland
+ There are no gods, we are told, so I must make my own salvation. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iain Banks, Salvation, 0 - Iain Banks Author · Scotland
+ It’s a library, only the stupid or the evil are afraid of those Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iain Banks, Evil, Library, Stupid, 0 - Iain Banks Author · Scotland
+ One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iain Banks, Law, Pleasure, 0 - Iain Banks Author · Scotland
+ One should never regret one’s excesses, only one’s failures of nerve. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iain Banks, Excess, Nerves, Regret, 0 - Iain Banks Author · Scotland
+ The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn’t. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iain Banks, Fiction, Writing, 0 - Iain Banks Author · Scotland
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France