Perdition awaits at the end of a road constructed entirely from good intentions, the devil emerges from the details and hell abides in the small print.
Iain BanksThere's an old Sysan saying that the soup of life is salty enough without adding tears to it.
Iain BanksI'm saying with very few exceptions nothing lasts forever, and among those exceptions, no work or thought of man is numbered.
Iain BanksAn Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop.
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