William Boyd Quotes

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• I stood there in the kitchen, watching her staring across the meadow still searching for her nemesis and I thought, suddenly, that this is all…
• I have teken refuge in the doctrine that advises one not to seek tranquility in certainty but in permanently suspended judgement.
• The last thing we learn about ourselves is our effect.
• It's true: lives do drift apart for no obvious reason. We're all busy people,we can't spend our time simply trying to stay in touch. The…
• 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…
• Dignity was the first quality to be abandoned when the heart took over the running of human affairs.
• She's half mad and three parts drunk.
• We talked filth for a pleasant half hour.
• When you experience bereavement at a youngish age, you suddenly realise that life is unjust and unfair, that bad things will happen, and you have…
• My novels are often about people who are in love or attracted to each other.
• Human beings are interested in the human condition.
• I have this lock of hair that keeps falling across my forehead. It drives me mad.
• I tend to admire dead people more than the living. All too often, human reality diminishes the glowing reputation.
• I let people off the hook too easily.
• The last thing you know about yourself is your effect.
• To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.
• In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music.
• I know many older writers who were very successful and whose books are now out of print, so you have to go to antiquarian booksellers…

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