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• We talked filth for a pleasant half hour.

  William Boyd

  Half, Filth, Hours

  William Boyd (2003). “Any human heart: a novel”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• 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 to buy their fifth or eighth novel or whatever it is.

  William Boyd

  Book, Successful, Novel

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• We all possess, like it or not, the people we know, and are possessed by them in turn.

  William Boyd

  People, Turns, Knows

  William Boyd (2013). “The Dream Lover: Short Stories”, p.309, A&C Black

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• Humankind can tolerate only so much rejection.

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  Rejection, Tolerate, Humankind

  William Boyd (2003). “Any human heart: a novel”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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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.

  William Boyd

  Thinking, Encounters, Veins

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• I don't think they'll ever make a retro Bond.

  William Boyd

  Thinking, Retro

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

  William Boyd

  Fall, Hair, Mad

  "William Boyd Q&A with James Bond". Interview with William Boyd, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2013.

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• Sometimes limbo is a tolerable place to be stuck.

  William Boyd

  Sometimes, Stuck, Limbo

  William Boyd (2003). “Any human heart: a novel”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• I tend to admire dead people more than the living. All too often, human reality diminishes the glowing reputation.

  William Boyd

  Reality, Glowing, People

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• The only times we are consciously aware of the authorship of a photograph, I would argue, are when we contemplate the photographs we ourselves have taken (or those of friends and family) or when we go deliberately to the photographers monograph or exhibition. The signed image - the appropriated, the owned image - is by far the rarest in this pullulating world of pictures.

  William Boyd

  Taken, Family And Friends, World

  William Boyd (2008). “Bamboo”, p.350, A&C Black

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