My greatest enemies are Women and the Sea. These things I hate. Women …

Iain Banks
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My greatest enemies are Women and the Sea. These things I hate. Women because they are weak and stupid and live in the shadow of men and are nothing compared to them, and the Sea because it has always frustrated me, destroying what I have built, washing away what I have left, wiping clean the marks I have made. ✨ Iain Banks (2013). The Wasp Factory: A Novel, p.43, Simon and Schuster
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