Alan Hollinghurst Quotes

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

  Alan Hollinghurst

  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.

  Alan Hollinghurst

  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.

  Alan Hollinghurst

  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.

  Alan Hollinghurst

  Children, Book, Writing

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

  Alan Hollinghurst

  Kind, Longing, Disdain

  Alan Hollinghurst (2014). “The Line of Beauty: Picador Classic”, p.106, Pan Macmillan

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

  Alan Hollinghurst

  Unconditional Love, Compliment, Wanted

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

  Fantasy, Made

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

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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 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.

  Alan Hollinghurst

  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.

  Alan Hollinghurst

  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

  Alan Hollinghurst

  People, Feelings, Noise

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