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Bamboo: Essays and Criticism QUOTES

Bamboo: Essays and Criticism QUOTES

1 " in the newspapers. It was Churchill who coined the phrase ‘in war the truth is so important that it must be protected by a bodyguard of lies’. "

― William Boyd , Bamboo: Essays and Criticism

2 " When I occasionally begin to worry about how much wine I drink each day I console myself – or excuse myself – with the thought that I drink wine like a French person. It seems to me almost sinful to sit down to eat food without a glass of wine. And how does one signal the end of the working day without opening a bottle? "

― William Boyd , Bamboo: Essays and Criticism

3 " Nicolson described the great aviator thus: ‘he is and always will be not only a schoolboy hero, but a schoolboy.’ It explains a great deal. "

― William Boyd , Bamboo: Essays and Criticism

4 " When he quoted Voltaire’s dictum that ‘the history of the human mind is the history of stupidity’, he meant it from the bottom of his heart. "

― William Boyd , Bamboo: Essays and Criticism