That was another thing she taught me. That you are what you do. To Providence-or Progress or the Future or before any other sort of judgment apart from our own conscience-what we have done, not what we have thought, is the result we are judged by. (Iain Banks)

That was another thing she taught me. That you are what you do. To Providence-or Progress or the Future or before any other sort of judgment apart from our own conscience-what we have done, not what we have thought, is the result we are judged by.

Iain Banks

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