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Quotes from A Good Man in Africa — William Boyd

born 1952 Scotland

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There are so many hypochondriacs out here. I think Murray can spot them a mile off."

A Good Man in Africa (1981)

I want you to get to know Murray because I want you to bribe him."

A Good Man in Africa (1981)

Morgan liked to imagine the town as some immense yeast culture, left in a deep cupboard by an absentminded lab technician, festering uncontrolled, running rampant in the ideal growing conditions.

A Good Man in Africa (1981)

Actually I can't stand the man. Sanctimonious, Calvinistic, so-and-so. Totally unsympathetic — can't think why he became a doctor — hectoring, bullying — sort of moral storm-trooper.

A Good Man in Africa (1981)

That's Africa for you, eh? Trouble-free sex and tranquillizers. What do they call it? Post-pill paradise or something. Load of nonsense. Never seen a more neurotic, glum bunch in my life.

A Good Man in Africa (1981)

Can't you keep this bloody place tidy?"

A Good Man in Africa (1981)

My maid Innocence. She's dead.

A Good Man in Africa (1981)

Like Rome, Nkongsamba was built on seven hills, but there all similarity ended. Set in undulating tropical rain forest, from the air it resembled nothing so much as a giant pool of crapulous vomit on somebody’s expansive unmown lawn.

A Good Man in Africa (1981)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Boyd (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.