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.
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I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.
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Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
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Israel is a piece of real estate that neither Jew or Arab will let go of; neither will leave these shores. And so they will have to learn to live together.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
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Bollywood is huge. Anything that's made in large quantity will evidently overshadow others. But that won't stop artistes from making albums. A person who has faith in his music will go ahead.
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Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away.
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Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in their trades.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.
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There is a fundamental notion at the core of American identity that, in this country, any little boy or girl can grow up to be president.
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I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 seater van. I was only 18. I mean I look young now, but then I looked about 12.
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Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.
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Some call me a Cuban hyphen American. I reject that. I don't believe in hyphenated Americans.
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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.
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Time: all things consume it, love alone makes use of it.
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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.
