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We all possess, like it or not, the people we know, and are possessed by them in turn.
William Boyd
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William Boyd
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 7
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It's amazing how sudden the effect is - it must be the result of a deep atavistic mating urge buried inside us. A glance and you think: 'Yes, this is the one, this one is right for me.' Every instinct in your body seems to sing in unison.
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I have this lock of hair that keeps falling across my forehead. It drives me mad.
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Do we change every time we have a new encounter? Are we endlessly mutable? I think these are fascinating questions: it's a rich vein to tap, and I don't think I have exhausted it fully yet.
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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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There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that.
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There's a sense in all my novels that nothing is certain.
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I have to start my real life soon, before I die of boredom and frustration.
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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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My novels are often about people who are in love or attracted to each other.
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Is that a good definition of marking the ageing watershed? That moment when you realize - quite rationally, quite unemotionally - that the world in the not-so-distant future will not contain you: that the trees you planted will continue growing but you will not be there to see them.
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Humankind can tolerate only so much rejection.
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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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I have teken refuge in the doctrine that advises one not to seek tranquility in certainty but in permanently suspended judgement.
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Sometimes limbo is a tolerable place to be stuck.
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I don't think they'll ever make a retro Bond.
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She's half mad and three parts drunk.
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