Quotes From "Surface Detail" By Iain M. Banks

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The trick, he supposed, was never to lose sight of the theoretical possibility while not for a moment taking the idea remotely seriously. Iain M. Banks
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An intelligence completely dissociated from the physical, or at least an impression of it, was a strange, curiously limited and almost perverse thing, and the precise form that your physicality took had a profound, in some ways defining influence on your personality. Iain M. Banks