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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

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The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other.
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What the problem was was this colossal redundancy.
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Colossal Problem Redundancy
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

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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
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…all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for.
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He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.
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Compliment Love Unconditional Want
I think being an only child created in me a degree of self-reliance, which I’m glad of.
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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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I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive.
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It made me perfectly happy with my own company and perhaps was good conditioning for the protracted solitude of writing books as slowly as I do.
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The squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material.
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Brillant Cheap Material Squander Technique
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.
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Child Goody Rather
The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo.
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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 face.
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