“Oh. I didn’t realise.”

— Iain Banks , Culture series

“Then you’re simply ignorant rather than malevolent. Congratulations.”
Source: Culture series, Look to Windward (2000), Chapter 11 “Absence of Gravitas” (p. 231)

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Scottish writer 1954–2013

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