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...and I confess that, like a child, I cry. Ah, self-pity; I think we are at our most honest and sincere when we feel sorry for ourselves.

...and I confess that, like a child, I cry. Ah, self-pity; I think we are at our most honest and sincere when we feel sorry for ourselves.

Iain Banks
Children, Sorry, Thinking
Iain Banks (1999). “A Song of Stone: A Novel”, p.277, Simon and Schuster

I'm an only child so am happy with my own company and I don't really get lonely.

Iain Banks
Lonely, Children, Only Child
Interview With Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2008.

"One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them. We here are not children, Mr. Gurgeh." Hamin waved the pipestem round the tables of people. "Rules and laws exist only because we take pleasure in doing what they forbid, but as long as most of the people obey such proscriptions most of the time, they have done their job; blind obedience would imply we are - ha!" - Hamin chuckled and pointed at the drone with the pipe - "no more than robots!"

Iain Banks
Jobs, Children, Law
"The Player of Games (The Culture, Book 2)". Book by Iain Banks (Chapter 2, p. 279), 1988.

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