Alan Hollinghurst Quotes

• The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other.

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  Alan Hollinghurst (2014). “The Line of Beauty: Picador Classic”, p.146, Pan Macmillan

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• I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive.

  Alan Hollinghurst

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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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  Writing, Great Wisdom, Tempo

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• I was rather a goody-goody as a child... It was only later on I discovered that you could be naughty and get away with it.

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  Children, Naughty, Get Away

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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.

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  Niños, Libro, Escritura

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• ...all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for.

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  Kind, Longing, Disdain

  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.

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  Fantasy, Made

  Alan Hollinghurst (1994). “The folding star”, Pantheon

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• He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.

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  Unconditional Love, Compliment, Wanted

  Alan Hollinghurst (2014). “The Line of Beauty: Picador Classic”, p.77, Pan Macmillan

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• Pedir disculpas por lo que más te apetecía hacer, reconocer que era odioso, aburrido, "vulgar e inseguro"... eso era lo peor.

  Alan Hollinghurst

  Apologizing, Boring, Worst

  Alan Hollinghurst (2014). “The Line of Beauty: Picador Classic”, p.124, Pan Macmillan

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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.

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  Book, Half, Faces

  Alan Hollinghurst (2011). “The Stranger's Child”, p.6, Pan Macmillan

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• What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material.

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  Technique, Brilliant, Problem

  Alan Hollinghurst (2014). “The Line of Beauty: Picador Classic”, p.73, Pan Macmillan

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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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  People, Feelings, Noise

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