“I am, as I have always been, of the opinion that while the niceties of normal moral constraints should be our guides, they must not be our masters.”

Source: Culture series, Excession (1996), Chapter 8 “Killing Time” section VII (p. 269).

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Scottish writer 1954–2013

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