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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 stopped and filled my lungs, smelling Africa - smelling dust, woodsmoke, a perfume from a flower, something musty, something decaying. — 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

Feelings of depression; feelings of frustration; feelings of emptiness in the face of all this randomness - done down by the haphazard, yet again. — 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

Because it seems to me that to be human you have to be able to compromise. — William Boyd

I have this lock of hair that keeps falling across my forehead. It drives me mad. — William Boyd

She bought a pint of whiskey and woke to discover that she had managed to construct a presentable hangover for herself on the morning of 1 January. — William Boyd

To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way. — William Boyd

We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being. — William Boyd

There are things in life we don't understand, and when we meet them, all we can do is let them alone. — William Boyd

I have to start my real life soon, before I die of boredom and frustration. — William Boyd

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. — William Boyd

The wounded, the incomplete, the unbalanced, the malfunctioning, the ill seek each other out: like attracted to like. — William Boyd

I should learn to be more craftily evasive, I thought: a bad evasion is tantamount to telling the truth. — William Boyd

No human being is entirely innocent — William Boyd

Dignity was the first quality to be abandoned when the heart took over the running of human affairs. — William Boyd

Here at its extremities the terrified transients gathered, gazing out at the vast refulgent ocean for some sign of security. We — William Boyd

My novels are often about people who are in love or attracted to each other. — William Boyd

I tend to admire dead people more than the living. All too often, human reality diminishes the glowing reputation. — William Boyd

The last thing we learn about ourselves is our effect. — William Boyd

All the itch and clutter of the world, its bother and fuss, its nagging pettiness, can wear you down so easily. And this is why I like the beach ... — William Boyd

Curious how these early linguistic abilities are so fragile, how unthinkingly and easily the brain lets them go. — William Boyd

She's half mad and three parts drunk. — William Boyd

I felt truly happy for the first time in years. Such moments should be logged and noted. — William Boyd

Describe your state of mine. Insecure. Uncertain. Feverish — William Boyd

Real life is never, never as simple as a movie. — William Boyd

Hot crumpets with butter and jam - what could be more ambrosial? — William Boyd

what is it about me and basements? Why do I like the semi-subterranean life? — William Boyd

Human beings are interested in the human condition. — William Boyd

Humankind can tolerate only so much rejection. — William Boyd

and thin, with the slight stoop — William Boyd

In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music. — William Boyd

What can I know? Nothing for sure. What ought I to do? Try not to hurt anyone. What may I hope for? For the best (but it won't make any difference). — William Boyd

True learning only occurs when you love the subject you are studying and then the acquiring of knowledge is effortless because it is also a pleasure. — William Boyd

It terrifies me, the fragility of these moments in our lives. — William Boyd

I love to use these phrases - 'with the greatest respect', 'in all modest', 'I humbly submit' - which in fact always imply the complete opposite. — William Boyd

I don't think they'll ever make a retro Bond. — William Boyd

All great artists are doubters. — William Boyd

I would catch them fast, eternally, thanks to the properties of my wonderful machine. In my hands I had the power to stop time,or so I fancied. — William Boyd

In my mind Greece is reduced to one vast pile of shattered marble, shimmering in a heat aze. — William Boyd

Are our lives just the aggregate of the lies we've told? ('Lives' - the 'v' is silent.) — William Boyd

Happenstance intersecting with received wisdom produces something entirely new and significant — William Boyd

Old Testament prophets. 'You savvy dis fetish thing? — William Boyd

he needed the security of other bodies. — William Boyd

When I think of my youth, he went in, what we took for granted, what we assumed was for ever certain, for ever permanent. — William Boyd

but you're giving a very good impression of a lovelorn fool pining for his girl. — William Boyd

We talked filth for a pleasant half hour. — William Boyd

I let people off the hook too easily. — William Boyd

We all possess, like it or not, the people we know, and are possessed by them in turn. — William Boyd

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. — William Boyd

Sometimes limbo is a tolerable place to be stuck. — William Boyd

People lead their real, most interesting lives under cover of secrecy — William Boyd

The last thing you know about yourself is your effect. — William Boyd

I experienced a form of grief so intense and pure I thought it would kill me. — William Boyd

There was something facile and shallow about male beauty, she thought. — William Boyd

Any fool can "obey" an order,' Hamo said, darkly. 'The clever thing is to interpret it. — William Boyd

We never love anyone. Not really. We only love our idea of another person. It is some conception of our own that we love. We love ourselves, in fact. — William Boyd

The best often seem the worst — William Boyd

But you can be too intelligent, I said. Sometimes it's not an asset it's a curse. — William Boyd

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. — William Boyd

I felt shocked and then saddened. life does this to you sometimes - leads you up a path and then drops you in the shit, to mix a metaphor. — William Boyd

There's a sense in all my novels that nothing is certain. — William Boyd