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The last thing you know about yourself is your effect.
William Boyd
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William Boyd
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 7
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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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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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She's half mad and three parts drunk.
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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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To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.
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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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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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The last thing we ever learn about ourselves is our effect.
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I have this lock of hair that keeps falling across my forehead. It drives me mad.
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