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> [“He thought other resourceful people would have come, over the years, to look at it, and that the house would wear its own mild frown of self-regard, a certain half-friendly awareness of being admired. It would live up to its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-hollinghurst/he-thought-other-resourceful-people-would-have-come-over-the-years-to/)

[Alan Hollinghurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-hollinghurst/)

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## More by Alan Hollinghurst

> [To apologize for what you most wanted to do, to concede that it was obnoxious, boring, 'vulgar and unsafe' --- that was the worst…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-hollinghurst/to-apologize-for-what-you-most-wanted-to-do-to-concede-that-it-was/)

[Alan Hollinghurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-hollinghurst/)

> [“And something else came back, from that later first morning at Kensington Park Gardens: a sense that the house was not only an enhancement…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-hollinghurst/and-something-else-came-back-from-that-later-first-morning-at/)

[Alan Hollinghurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-hollinghurst/)

> [“Andrew Davies has said he prefers his authors dead, and I can see there is only a limited usefulness in a live one when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-hollinghurst/andrew-davies-has-said-he-prefers-his-authors-dead-and-i-can-see/)

[Alan Hollinghurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-hollinghurst/)

> [“...but he felt the relief of being alone as well...the forgotten solitude which measures and verifies the strength of an affair, and which, being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-hollinghurst/but-he-felt-the-relief-of-being-alone-as-well-the-forgotten-solitude/)

[Alan Hollinghurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-hollinghurst/)

> [...all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-hollinghurst/all-his-longings-came-out-as-a-kind-of-disdain-for-what-he-longed-for/)

[Alan Hollinghurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-hollinghurst/)

> [“She felt that at some point she must finally and formally talk to Louisa about Hubert, and ask her to acknowledge that the worst…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-hollinghurst/she-felt-that-at-some-point-she-must-finally-and-formally-talk-to/)

[Alan Hollinghurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-hollinghurst/)

> [“After that they browsed for a minute or two in a semi-detached fashion. Nick found a set of Trollope which had a relatively modest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-hollinghurst/after-that-they-browsed-for-a-minute-or-two-in-a-semi-detached/)

[Alan Hollinghurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-hollinghurst/)

> [Now that I had actually made love, more astonishingly now that I had been made love to, the fantasies were subtly undermined.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-hollinghurst/now-that-i-had-actually-made-love-more-astonishingly-now-that-i-had/)

[Alan Hollinghurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-hollinghurst/)

> [“The pursuit of love seemed to need the cultivation of indifference.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-hollinghurst/the-pursuit-of-love-seemed-to-need-the-cultivation-of-indifference/)

[Alan Hollinghurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-hollinghurst/)

> [What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material, ...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-hollinghurst/what-the-problem-was-was-this-colossal-redundancy-the-squandering-of/)

[Alan Hollinghurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-hollinghurst/)

> [“Delight is délice, délit is a misdemeanour' 'Well, it's bloody close...' 'Well, they often are…”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-hollinghurst/delight-is-d-lice-d-lit-is-a-misdemeanour-well-it-s-bloody-close-well/)

[Alan Hollinghurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-hollinghurst/)

> [“Paul was blandness itself, just tinged with pink.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-hollinghurst/paul-was-blandness-itself-just-tinged-with-pink/)

[Alan Hollinghurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-hollinghurst/)

> [“It was the time of year when the atmosphere streamed with unexpected hints and memories, and a paradoxical sense of renewal.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-hollinghurst/it-was-the-time-of-year-when-the-atmosphere-streamed-with-unexpected/)

[Alan Hollinghurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-hollinghurst/)

> [“Now he had chanced on one of he standard hard-on sessions of the shower, as on both sides of him and across the room…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-hollinghurst/now-he-had-chanced-on-one-of-he-standard-hard-on-sessions-of-the/)

[Alan Hollinghurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-hollinghurst/)

> [He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-hollinghurst/he-wanted-pure-compliments-just-as-he-wanted-unconditional-love/)

[Alan Hollinghurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-hollinghurst/)

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