Alan Hollinghurst Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things, but it's not a complete record.
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Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.
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I like to wear things that are daring but also not seem too avant-garde.
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I don't watch a lot of T.V. I only watch things via Netflix, so I only watch the things that I'm choosing to watch.
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I've done a lot of things that I regret.
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Living in New York after 14 years, I'm such an outdoors kind of person. I love gardening and building things. I like restoring old furniture.
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There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.
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I've always been able to put things in perspective.
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I don't get distracted until the weight of other things left undone finally tips the balance; my mind is flooded with calls, bills, supermarkets, letters, and I have to stop and sort things out.
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I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things.
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When we have financial struggles, kids are so much more aware of things than we want them to be.
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I love to watch low-budget indie artsy films, but I do also love the big blockbuster things. I would love to do that one day, do a Marvel film. That would be really great.
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Some things in literature are inexplicable.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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I love going to football games and going to homecoming dances and just doing normal things.
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I always compartmentalized so many different things.
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Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.
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If thou canst believe, all things are possible.
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I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many of the irregular and fragmented patterns around us, and leads to full-fledged theories, by identifying a family of shapes I call fractals.
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It was as if they had leapt over the arduous cavalry of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.
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It remained an open question, how much sympathy love could stand.
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My good ideas are shy. But if they see that I treat the stupid ideas with respect, they come forward.
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I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive.
