William Boyd

William Boyd
William Boyd, CBEis a British novelist and screenwriter...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 March 1952
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I don't know where you heard the rumors (of annexation), ... I don't know where they got started. In any meeting I've ever been to, we have never mentioned annexation at all. It's never been mentioned.
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I'm one of five individuals who paid to have a legal analysis of the bill done, and that analysis came back and said it is not constitutional.
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Griffin is a very good team. We made a lot of mistakes early, and they took advantage of them.
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It is probably no exaggeration to say that she is Britain's preeminent living novelist.
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you realize that could happen on King's Road in West London, with that courier driving too fast.
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But that relaxed version forwarded to the Title IV Subgroup still adds costs to state solvency regulation that aren't needed, based on the insolvency record of mutual insurers.
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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.
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The governor has asked us to be open-minded about this. I think the governor is so open-minded that his brains fell out.
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We had positive plays on offense in the end of the second quarter that carried into the second half. We will continue to work to get better.
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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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It's true: lives do drift apart for no obvious reason. We're all busy people,we can't spend our time simply trying to stay in touch. The test of a friendship is if it can weather these inevitable gaps.
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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 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.