Alan Hollinghurst quotes
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“The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other.”
-- Alan HollinghurstSource : Alan Hollinghurst (2014). “The Line of Beauty: Picador Classic”, p.146, Pan Macmillan
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“...all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for.”
-- Alan HollinghurstSource : Alan Hollinghurst (2014). “The Line of Beauty: Picador Classic”, p.106, Pan Macmillan
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“Now that I had actually made love, more astonishingly now that I had been made love to, the fantasies were subtly undermined.”
-- Alan HollinghurstSource : Alan Hollinghurst (1994). “The folding star”, Pantheon
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“What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material, ...”
-- Alan HollinghurstSource : Alan Hollinghurst (2014). “The Line of Beauty: Picador Classic”, p.73, Pan Macmillan
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“The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo.”
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“I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive.”
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“To apologize for what you most wanted to do, to concede that it was obnoxious, boring, 'vulgar and unsafe' --- that was the worst thing.”
-- Alan HollinghurstSource : Alan Hollinghurst (2014). “The Line of Beauty: Picador Classic”, p.124, Pan Macmillan
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“He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.”
-- Alan HollinghurstSource : Alan Hollinghurst (2014). “The Line of Beauty: Picador Classic”, p.77, Pan Macmillan
#Unconditional Love Quotes #Compliment Quotes #Unconditional Quotes
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“There was the noise itself, which he thought of vaguely as the noise of classical music, sameish and rhetorical, full of feelings people surely never had”
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“she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face.”
-- Alan HollinghurstSource : Alan Hollinghurst (2011). “The Stranger's Child”, p.6, Pan Macmillan
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“I think being an only child created in me a degree of self-reliance, which I'm glad of. It made me perfectly happy with my own company and perhaps was good conditioning for the protracted solitude of writing books as slowly as I do.”
-- Alan Hollinghurst
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