The New Confessions Quotes

“All film technique, I am convinced (and like many of my theories I am probably alone in adhering to it), originates in dreaming. We could dream slow motion before the moving camera was invented. In our dreams we could cut between parallel actions, we assembled montage shots long before some self-important Russian claimed to show us how. This is where film derives its particular power. It re-creates on screen what has been going on in our unconscious.”
― William Boyd, The New Confessions

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― William Boyd, The New Confessions

“I had stopped trying to steer a course; I was content to be carried by the current.”
― William Boyd, The New Confessions

“He was always too conscious of himself and of the impression he was creating on others – an infallible sign of the vain and the fraudulent.”
― William Boyd, The New Confessions

“I say to myself, at last you are in tune with the universe.”
― William Boyd, The New Confessions

“Do you know that feeling? When you meet someone and you know? The sudden hollowing out of your torso, as if your lungs, heart, viscera have gone and the ribs seem to creak like barrel staves under too much pressure. Glimmerings, intimations of the way I felt now had occurred before with Faye Hobhouse, Dagmar - even Huguette. It is, I think, to do with fear: a fear of impotence - not sexual, but of lacking the power or ability to capture the object of your vital passion. A haunting dread that you will never have the chance again, that the moment has passed you by for ever.”
― William Boyd, The New Confessions

“I was convinced I had overdrawn my balance of good fortune; that whatever haphazard benevolence the impassive universe might hold towards me was all but gone.”
― william boyd, The New Confessions