"What the problem was was this colossal redundancy,……" — Alan Hollinghurst
"What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material, ..."
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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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...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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He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.
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