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
The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other. - Alan Hollinghurst
The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other.
- Alan Hollinghurst
I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive. - Alan Hollinghurst
I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive.
she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face. - Alan Hollinghurst
she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face.
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
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.
...all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for. - Alan Hollinghurst
...all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for.
What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material. - Alan Hollinghurst
What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material.
He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love. - Alan Hollinghurst
He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.
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 wa… - Alan Hollinghurst
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 wa…
Now that I had actually made love, more astonishingly now that I had been made love to, the fantasies were subtly undermined. - Alan Hollinghurst
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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