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The squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material.

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’ — that was the worst thing.
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Apologize Bore Concede Move Obnoxious Thing Unsafe Vulgar Want Worst
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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Actual Astonishingly Ben Fantasies Love Made More Subtly Undermined
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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Come Everybody Great One Own Perhaps Tempo Understand Wisdom Writer
What the problem was was this colossal redundancy.
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Colossal Problem Redundancy
I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive.
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Like Reverberate Sugegstive Thing
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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Above Book Down Face Half Heap Lept She Slide Small Surrender Tingly
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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I think being an only child created in me a degree of self-reliance, which I’m glad of.
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Being Child Create Degree Glad Made Reliance Self Think
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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Book Clow Company Condition Happy Made Own Perfectly Perhaps Protract Write
The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other.
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Beauty Each Other More Se Worse
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
He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.
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Compliment Love Unconditional Want
…all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for.
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All Ant Came Kind Longing Love Out Unconditional

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