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  1. Iain M. Banks _ Against a Dark Background

    How long have we had space travel?" Breyguhn shouted, smacking her fist into the table surface; the chain whipped down, scattering chips of granite. Breyguhn didn't seem to notice. "Seven thousand years! Seven thousand years!" she roared, standing, throwing her arms wide, voice echoing from above. Sharrow heard a bell ringing somewhere. "Seventy centuries, Sharrow! Seven millennia of footling about in the one miserable system, crawling from rock to rock,
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  2. Iain M. Banks _ Against a Dark Background

    But if you're God," Sharrow said to Elson Roa, "why do you need the others?" "What others?" Roa said. Sharrow looked exasperated. "Oh, come on." Elson Roa shrugged. "My apparences? They are the sign that my will is not yet strong enough to support my existence without extraneous help. I am working on this.
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  3. Iain M. Banks _ Against a Dark Background

    We are a race prone to monsters, she thought, and when we produce one we worship it.
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  4. Iain M. Banks _ Against a Dark Background

    He might come in useful.''Yeah. So's a broken leg if you want to kick yourself in the back of the head."
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  5. Iain M. Banks _ Against a Dark Background

    If this goes badly and I make a crater, I want it named after me!
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  6. Iain M. Banks _ Against a Dark Background

    It gripped her hand gently. 'Regret is for humans,' it said.She laughed. 'Really?'The machine shrugged and let go of her hand. 'Oh, no. It's just something we tell ourselves.
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  7. Iain M. Banks _ Against a Dark Background

    People were always sorry. Sorry they had done what they had done, sorry they were doing what they were doing, sorry they were going to do what they were going to do; but they still did whatever it is. The sorrow never stopped them; it just made them feel better. And so the sorrow never stopped.
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  8. Iain M. Banks _ Against a Dark Background

    Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying."
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