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


Iain Banks

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IAIN DOWIE I practically fell off my seat on the subway this morning. I could not believe it.
IAIN LEVINE [H]e initially conceived of Olivier as a man of the greatest promise destroyed by a fatal flaw, the ...
IAIN PEARS Caius was one of those who gloried in his ignorance, called his lack of letters purity, scorned any ...
IAIN PEARS Olivier took a deep breath, then turned and bowed in farewell. Gersonides nodded in return, then tho...
IAIN PEARS Felix had gone to live in a lotus land of his imagination. Where what is desired is dreamed of as al...
IAIN PEARS Considering he was neither priest nor scholar, the young man gave sensible, thoughtful replies -- th...
IAIN PEARS Civilization depends on continually making the effort, of never giving in. It needs to be cared for ...
IAIN PEARS He had volunteered early, rather than waiting to be conscripted, for he felt a duty and an obligatio...
IAIN PEARS Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions.
IAIN PEARS She had lost herself in this old work, her personality dissolving into it, so that she had been set ...
IAIN PEARS And here was the moment. The end of it all, for civilization was merely another name for friendship,...
IAIN PEARS [Men] prefer the foolish belief and the passions of the earth [to the enlightenment of their souls]....
IAIN PEARS Manlius ... took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his circle crude and vulga...
IAIN PEARS I have brought peace to this land, and security," he began.

"And what of your soul, when ...
IAIN PEARS Philosophy cannot be extinguished, though men will try ... The spirit seeks the light, that is its n...
IAIN PEARS Politics bores you?" Bronsen said.

Julien smiled. "It does. Apologies, sir, and it is not...
IAIN PEARS The point of civilization is to be civilized; the purpose of action is to perpetuate society, for on...
IAIN PEARS This is a perfectly good picture. And if I didn't know you, I would be impressed and charmed. But I ...
IAIN PEARS Every cataclysm is welcomed by somebody; there is always someone to rejoice at disaster and see in i...
IAIN PEARS Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be cor...
IAIN PEARS When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame...
IAIN PEARS If you overdosed on it, it might make you feel sick and give you a slight uplift in your libido [on ...
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