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Alan Hollinghurst quotes: And going into the showers I saw a suntanned young lad in pale blue trunks that I rather liked the look of.

And going into the showers I saw a suntanned young lad in pale blue trunks that I rather liked the look of.

Alan Hollinghurst quotes: All families are silly in their own way.

All families are silly in their own way.

Alan Hollinghurst quotes: He was asking for memories, too young himself to know that memories were only memories of memories.

He was asking for memories, too young himself to know that memories were only memories of memories.

Alan Hollinghurst quotes: It was the time of year when the atmosphere streamed with unexpected hints and memories, and a paradoxical sense of renewal.

It was the time of year when the atmosphere streamed with unexpected hints and memories, and a paradoxical sense of renewal.

Alan Hollinghurst quotes: The pursuit of love seemed to need the cultivation of indifference.

The pursuit of love seemed to need the cultivation of indifference.

Alan Hollinghurst quotes: He somehow saw that to her being drunk had its whole long sentimental history, whereas to him it was a freakish novelty.

He somehow saw that to her being drunk had its whole long sentimental history, whereas to him it was a freakish novelty.

Alan Hollinghurst quotes: You can drive, Nick,' and threw them over to him. It was typical of Wani to dress up a command as a treat.

You can drive, Nick,' and threw them over to him. It was typical of Wani to dress up a command
as a treat.

Alan Hollinghurst quotes: The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other.

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

Alan Hollinghurst quotes: She kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face.

She kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face.

Alan Hollinghurst quotes: There are chaps who don't care for them, you know. Simply can't abide them. Can't stand the sight of them, their titties and their big sit-upons,

There are chaps who don't care for them, you know. Simply can't abide them. Can't stand the sight of them, their titties and their big sit-upons,

Alan Hollinghurst quotes: Ricky clearly never hurried, he was his own lazy happening.

Ricky clearly never hurried, he was his own lazy happening.

Alan Hollinghurst quotes: Nick felt a tear rise to his eye at the thought of the child's utter innocence of hangovers.

Nick felt a tear rise to his eye at the thought of the child's utter innocence of hangovers.

Alan Hollinghurst quotes: What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material, ...

What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material, ...

Alan Hollinghurst quotes: He was an animal, that great thing for someone else to be.

He was an animal, that great thing for someone else to be.

Alan Hollinghurst quotes: 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.

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 quotes: To apologize for what you most wanted to do, to concede that it was obnoxious, boring, 'vulgar and unsafe' that was the worst thing.

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 quotes: The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo.

The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo.

Alan Hollinghurst quotes: He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.

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

Alan Hollinghurst quotes: Now that I had actually made love, more astonishingly now that I had been made love to, the fantasies were subtly undermined.

Now that I had actually made love, more astonishingly now that I had been made love to, the fantasies were subtly undermined.

Alan Hollinghurst quotes: Paul was blandness itself, just tinged with pink.

Paul was blandness itself, just tinged with pink.

Alan Hollinghurst quotes: There is a sort of aesthetic poverty about conservatism

There is a sort of aesthetic poverty about conservatism

Alan Hollinghurst quotes: All his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for.

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

Alan Hollinghurst quotes: I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive.

I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive.

Alan Hollinghurst quotes: ...like the roses and begonias they seemed to take and hold the richly filtered evening light.

...like the roses and begonias they seemed to take and hold the richly filtered evening light.