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William Boyd Quote: “No, no – you have to understand, Lysander, here in Vienna, in this ramshackle empire of ours, suicide is a perfectly reasonable course of action. Everyone will know your true feelings and why you had no choice but to do it – no one will condemn you or blame you.”

51. “No, no – you have to understand, Lysander, here in Vienna, in this ramshackle empire of ours, suicide is a perfectly reasonable course of action. Everyone will know your true feelings and why you had no choice but to do it – no one will condemn you or blame you.”

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William Boyd Quote: “In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It’s more fulfilling.”

52. “In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It’s more fulfilling.”

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William Boyd Quote: “Any fool can “obey” an order,’ Hamo said, darkly. ‘The clever thing is to interpret it.”

53. “Any fool can “obey” an order,’ Hamo said, darkly. ‘The clever thing is to interpret it.”

— William Boyd

William Boyd Quote: “Because it seems to me that to be human you have to be able to compromise.”

54. “Because it seems to me that to be human you have to be able to compromise.”

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William Boyd Quote: “To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.”

55. “To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.”

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William Boyd Quote: “Mr Lysander Rief looks like someone who is far more at ease occupying the cold security of the dark; a man happier with the dubious comfort of the shadows.”

56. “Mr Lysander Rief looks like someone who is far more at ease occupying the cold security of the dark; a man happier with the dubious comfort of the shadows.”

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William Boyd Quote: “My novels are often about people who are in love or attracted to each other.”

57. “My novels are often about people who are in love or attracted to each other.”

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William Boyd Quote: “Film is a medium of clear lines and broad strikes – which can be fantastic – but compared to the subtleties and nuances of a novel, it doesn’t even get close.”

58. “Film is a medium of clear lines and broad strikes – which can be fantastic – but compared to the subtleties and nuances of a novel, it doesn’t even get close.”

— William Boyd

William Boyd Quote: “I was at that level of inebriation – that hinge, that crux, that ridge – where you can decide to proceed or step back. Red warning lights were flashing on the control panel but the aeroplane was not yet in a screaming death-dive.”

59. “I was at that level of inebriation – that hinge, that crux, that ridge – where you can decide to proceed or step back. Red warning lights were flashing on the control panel but the aeroplane was not yet in a screaming death-dive.”

— William Boyd

William Boyd Quote: “She was happy. Her father had always told her to make sure and recognise that state when it arrived, and acknowledge it. ‘It’s like money in the bank, old girl’, he would say...”

60. “She was happy. Her father had always told her to make sure and recognise that state when it arrived, and acknowledge it. ‘It’s like money in the bank, old girl’, he would say...”

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William Boyd Quote: “The best often seem the worst.”

61. “The best often seem the worst.”

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William Boyd Quote: “We talked filth for a pleasant half hour.”

62. “We talked filth for a pleasant half hour.”

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William Boyd Quote: “I chided her gently, reminding her that you can’t make these unilateral pacts with life. You can’t say: that’s it, my emotions are securely locked away, now I’m impregnable, safe from the world’s cruelties and disappointments. Better to take them on, come what may, I said, see what strength you have within you.”

63. “I chided her gently, reminding her that you can’t make these unilateral pacts with life. You can’t say: that’s it, my emotions are securely locked away, now I’m impregnable, safe from the world’s cruelties and disappointments. Better to take them on, come what may, I said, see what strength you have within you.”

— William Boyd

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