"He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted……" — Alan Hollinghurst
"He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love."
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9 Quotes by Alan Hollinghurst
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To apologize for what you most wanted to do, to concede that it was obnoxious, boring, 'vulgar and unsafe' ---…
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I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive.
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The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own…
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What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material, ...
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...all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for.
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The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other.
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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…
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There was the noise itself, which he thought of vaguely as the noise of classical music, sameish and rhetorical, full…
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More Compliment Quotes
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one of 687 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved…
— Victoria Beckham
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Just don't let the hype of what people are saying and how much they love you, y'know, just take the…
— Mary J. Blige
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I take anything other than 'you big pig!' as a compliment.
— Albert Brooks
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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's…
— Joyce Brothers
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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment,…
— Leo Buscaglia
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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority…
— Samuel Butler
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I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward.…
— Nick Cave
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The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.
— Lord Chesterfield
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You look at Cheney, Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, and Bush - if you saw them on Halloween, they wouldn't need a…
— Tommy Chong
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If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
— Luc de Clapiers
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As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I…
— Clarence Clemons
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There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.
— Robert Breault
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