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“One should never mistake pattern for meaning.”
― Iain Banks, The Hydrogen Sonata

“She had even started thinking of giving up entirely, beginning to agree with those who held that life-tasks weren’t really about accomplishing anything beyond the passing of time before all such tasks, ambitions, goals and aspirations became – supposedly – laughably irrelevant and petty.”
― Iain M. Banks

“Living either never has any point, or is always its own point; being a naturally cheery soul, I lean towards the latter.”
― Iain M. Banks, The Hydrogen Sonata

“Meaning is everywhere. There is always meaning. Or at least all things show a disturbing tendency to have meaning ascribed to them when intelligent creatures are present. It’s just that there’s no final Meaning, with a capital M. Though the illusion that there might be is comforting for a certain class of mind.”
― Iain M. Banks, The Hydrogen Sonata

“Sometimes what goes without saying is best said anyway.”
― Iain M. Banks, The Hydrogen Sonata

“Well, in the end, there was no helping this. Sometimes you just had to adopt the attitude summed up by, Too bad.”
― Iain M. Banks, The Hydrogen Sonata

“The bar is high. But now you have a ladder.”
― Larry Brooks, Story Engineering

“If you're playing God, you need to get it right.”
― Larry Brooks, Story Engineering

“A clever trick does not a concept make.”
― Larry Brooks, Story Engineering

“[on scene execution] Interesting isn't the point...storytelling momentum and relevance is.”
― Larry Brooks, Story Engineering