Adventure Quote by William Boyd

“They are all about romance, about life's excitement and adventure and it's essential sadness and transience. They savour everything both fine and bittersweet that life has to offer us - a stoical in the hedonism.” quote by William Boyd — Download Open image

““They are all about romance, about life's excitement and adventure and it's essential sadness and transience. They savour everything both fine and bittersweet that life has to offer us - a stoical in the hedonism.””

William Boyd

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Sometimes limbo is a tolerable place to be stuck.

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“Here at its extremities the terrified transients gathered, gazing out at the vast refulgent ocean for some sign of security.”

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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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“Old Testament prophets. ‘You savvy dis fetish thing?”

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Human beings are interested in the human condition.

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“A warm sunny evening, the plash and gurgle of the waves in the rock pools, the rush of the cold gin. I thought for…

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

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With film, you have very limited tools to convey subjectivity - voiceover, the camera's point of view, good acting - but even the very…

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“any man over forty who deliberately combs his hair forward in a child’s fringe has something suspect about him,”

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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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“All great artists are doubters.”

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

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