“That’s the trouble with people like them, I suppose; whenever you think you’re detecting the first signs of them starting to behave responsibly, it’s just them being even more devious and underhand than usual.”

— Iain Banks , Culture series

Source: Culture series, Excession (1996), Chapter 8 “Killing Time” section V (p. 261).

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Scottish writer 1954–2013

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