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The natural world is full of irregularity and random alteration, but in the antiseptic, dust-free, shadowless, brightly lit, abstract realm of the mathematicians they like their cabbages spherical, please.

— William Boyd Brazzaville Beach (1990)

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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)

"Dear Faye, I feel a little fitter today. Perhaps everything will be fine after all ..."

The New Confessions (1987)

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

A Good Man in Africa (1981)

It seems to me that there are statements about the world and our lives that have no need of formal proof procedures.

Brazzaville Beach (1990)

I know he never loved me, but that, as far as I am concerned, is of little importance. He did not love me because, quite simply, I was a constant reminder of his loss."

The New Confessions (1987)

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