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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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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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 still don't understand why when you put a piece of paper in a tray with solution in it, it comes up. It's still, in a sense, magic to me. It's a funny thing, you know. I've got two kids, and when they were very young, they used to come in the darkroom and I thought they'd be astounded by that. Nothing. When they got a little older, then they got astounded by it.
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Even things that are true can be proved.
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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.
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Everyone is going to see things differently - and that's the way it should be.
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The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.
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I'm a competitive person and I love the challenge of mastering new things.
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Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
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He who thus considers things in their first growth and origin ... will obtain the clearest view of them.
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For the Chinese, the Greeks, the Mayans, or the Egyptians, nature was a living totality, a creative being. For this reason, art, according to Aristotle, is imitation; the poet imitates the creative gesture of nature.
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I slice up a ton of cucumbers, celery, carrots and red and yellow peppers. Keep them in your fridge so you always have something handy to curb your snack attack.
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I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive.