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Иэн Мензис Бэнкс — шотландский писатель, работавший в жанре научной фантастики под именем Iain M. Banks, а также вне жанра под именем Iain Banks. В 2008 году имя писателя было внесено в список 50 лучших писателей Великобритании с 1945 года газеты The Times. Британские литературные критики и журналисты нарекли Бэнкса прозвищем Тарантино от литературы. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. Февраль 1954 – 9. Июнь 2013
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„Осознав теорию эволюции, усвоив азы животноводства в историческом аспекте, я увидел,
что курчавые белые звери, над которыми я так смеялся за их стадный инстинкт и вечное застревание в кустах, являют собой плод не только многочисленных поколений овец, но и, ничуть не в меньшей степени, многочисленных поколений овцеводов; это мы сделали их такими, мы перелепили их предков - умных и диких победителей в борьбе за выживание - в пугливых покорных глупых вкусных производителей шерсти. Нам не нужен был их ум, и овечий интеллект приказал долго жить вместе с агрессией. Бараны, конечно, сообразительней, но даже их унижает общество безмозглых самок, которых они должны оплодотворять. Тот же принцип применим к курам, коровам - да почти ко всему, на что мы сумели более-менее надолго наложить нашу жадную лапу. Порой у меня мелькает мысль, что нечто подобное могло произойти и с женщинами, но, как ни привлекательна эта теория, боюсь, что я ошибаюсь.“

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Иэн Бэнкс: Цитаты на английском языке

“A guilty system recognizes no innocents.”

Iain Banks Culture series

Источник: Culture series, The Player of Games (1988), Chapter 2 “Imperium” (p. 215).
Контексте: A guilty system recognizes no innocents. As with any power apparatus which thinks everybody’s either for it or against it, we’re against it. You would be too, if you thought about it. The very way you think places you among its enemies. This might not be your fault, because every society imposes some of its values on those raised within it, but the point is that some societies try to maximize that effect, and some try to minimize it. You come from one of the latter and you’re being asked to explain yourself to one of the former. Prevarication will be more difficult than you imagine; neutrality is probably impossible. You cannot choose not to have the politics you do; they are not some separate set of entities somehow detachable from the rest of your being; they are a function of your existence. I know that and they know that; you had better accept it.

“Empathize with stupidity and you’re halfway to thinking like an idiot.”

Iain Banks Culture series

Источник: Culture series, Consider Phlebas (1987), Chapter 2 “The Hand of God 137” (p. 27).

“I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk.”

Iain Banks книга Use of Weapons

Источник: Culture series, Use of Weapons (1990), Chapter II (p. 417).
Контексте: He shrugged. “Whatever.”
“Aw, Darac, come on; argue, dammit.”
“I don’t believe in argument,” he said, looking out into the darkness (and saw a towering ship, a capital ship, ringed with its layers and levels of armament and armor, dark against the dusk light, but not dead).
“You don’t?” Erens said, genuinely surprised. “Shit, and I thought I was the cynical one.”
“It’s not cynicism,” he said flatly. “I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk.”
“Oh well, thank you.”
“It’s comforting, I suppose.” He watched the stars wheel, like absurdly slow shells seen at night: rising, peaking, falling...(And reminded himself that the stars too would explode, perhaps, one day.) “Most people are not prepared to have their minds changed,” he said. “And I think they know in their hearts that other people are just the same, and one of the reasons people become angry when they argue is that they realize just that, as they trot out their excuses.”
“Excuses, eh? Well, if this ain’t cynicism, what is?” Erens snorted.
“Yes, excuses,” he said, with what Erens thought might just have been a trace of bitterness. “I strongly suspect the things people believe in are usually just what they instinctively feel is right; the excuses, the justifications, the things you’re supposed to argue about, come later. They’re the least important part of the belief. That’s why you can destroy them, win an argument, prove the other person wrong, and still they believe what they did in the first place.” He looked at Erens. “You’ve attacked the wrong thing.”

“One should never mistake pattern for meaning.”

Iain Banks книга The Hydrogen Sonata

Источник: The Hydrogen Sonata

“It was the day my grandmother exploded.”

Iain Banks книга The Crow Road

Источник: The Crow Road

“There's an old Sysan saying that the soup of life is salty enough without adding tears to it.”

Iain Banks книга Look to Windward

Источник: Look to Windward

“My gratitude extends beyond the limits of my capacity to express it”

Iain Banks The Player of Games

Источник: The Player of Games

“Looking at me, you'd never guess I'd killed three people. It isn't fair.”

Iain Banks книга Осиная фабрика

Источник: The Wasp Factory

“Something in your voice tells me we approach the question of remuneration.”

Iain Banks Culture series

Источник: Culture series, Consider Phlebas (1987), Chapter 2 “The Hand of God 137” (p. 20).

“The news team, and Hamin, seemed well pleased. “You should have been an actor, Jernau Gurgeh,” Hamin told him.
Gurgeh assumed this was intended as a compliment.”

Iain Banks Culture series

Источник: Culture series, The Player of Games (1988), Chapter 3 “Machina Ex Machina” (p. 306).

“While the forces of repression need to win every time, the progressive elements need only triumph once.”

“A Few Notes on the Culture” (p. 169)
Short fiction, The State of the Art (1991)

“There are no gods, we are told, so I must make my own salvation.”

Iain Banks Culture series

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

““So it’s false.”
“What isn’t?”
“Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling.””

Iain Banks Culture series

Источник: Culture series, The Player of Games (1988), Chapter 1 “Culture Plate” (p. 5).

“Pity they didn’t devote a little more ingenuity to staying alive rather than conducting mass slaughter as efficiently as possible.”

Iain Banks Culture series

Источник: Culture series, Consider Phlebas (1987), Chapter 4 “Temple of Light” (p. 96).

““You’re a wicked man.”
“Thank you. It’s taken years of diligent practice.””

Iain Banks Culture series

Источник: Culture series, Use of Weapons (1990), Chapter Eleven (p. 355).

“One does not spy on one’s own people,” ZeSpiole informed him. “One has, rather, conduits of communication which lead to the common man.”

Iain Banks Culture series

Источник: Culture series, Inversions (1998), Chapter 18 (p. 295)