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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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The last thing we ever learn about ourselves is our effect.
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There's a sense in all my novels that nothing is certain.
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I have this lock of hair that keeps falling across my forehead. It drives me mad.
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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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We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.
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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.
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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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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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