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I have teken refuge in the doctrine that advises one not to seek tranquility in certainty but in permanently suspended judgement.
— William Boyd
I feel very sorry for myself - that is what grief is.
— William Boyd
I've never met a vegetarian that I liked, curiously. You might have been the exception, of course"Solo — William Boyd
There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that.
— William Boyd
To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.
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We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.
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There are things in life we don't understand, and when we meet them, all we can do is let them alone.
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Gabriel thought maps should be banned. They gave the world an order and reasonableness which it did not possess.'An Ice-cream War — William Boyd
In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It's more fulfilling.
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The wounded, the incomplete, the unbalanced, the malfunctioning, the ill seek each other out: like attracted to like.
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I should learn to be more craftily evasive, I thought: a bad evasion is tantamount to telling the truth.
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No human being is entirely innocent
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Dignity was the first quality to be abandoned when the heart took over the running of human affairs.
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Here at its extremities the terrified transients gathered, gazing out at the vast refulgent ocean for some sign of security. We
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I tend to admire dead people more than the living. All too often, human reality diminishes the glowing reputation.
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The last thing we learn about ourselves is our effect.
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Curious how these early linguistic abilities are so fragile, how unthinkingly and easily the brain lets them go.
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She's half mad and three parts drunk.
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I felt truly happy for the first time in years. Such moments should be logged and noted.
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Describe your state of mine. Insecure. Uncertain. Feverish
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Real life is never, never as simple as a movie.
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Human beings are interested in the human condition.
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Humankind can tolerate only so much rejection.
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In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music.
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I don't think they'll ever make a retro Bond.
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All great artists are doubters.
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In my mind Greece is reduced to one vast pile of shattered marble, shimmering in a heat aze.
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Are our lives just the aggregate of the lies we've told? ('Lives' - the 'v' is silent.)
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Happenstance intersecting with received wisdom produces something entirely new and significant
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Old Testament prophets. 'You savvy dis fetish thing?
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he needed the security of other bodies.
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When I think of my youth, he went in, what we took for granted, what we assumed was for ever certain, for ever permanent.
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We talked filth for a pleasant half hour.
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I let people off the hook too easily.
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We all possess, like it or not, the people we know, and are possessed by them in turn.
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I have always thought if you are going to make a film, it's much better to have an original script that will play to film's strengths.
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Sometimes limbo is a tolerable place to be stuck.
— William Boyd
The last thing you know about yourself is your effect.
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Any fool can "obey" an order,' Hamo said, darkly. 'The clever thing is to interpret it.
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The best often seem the worst
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You think it begins to diminish with time, the pain, then it comes back and hits you with a rawness and freshness you had forgotten.
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There's a sense in all my novels that nothing is certain.
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