"I wanted to write a book that imagined where advances in the study of genetics might lead us. Holman was the first character who came to me: I envisaged the misshapen offspring of beautiful, wealthy parents. Then I realised that he bore a striking resemblance to Toulouse-Lautrec. I developed that, made Holman an alcoholic who lives among hookers, an artist tortured by his disability."

-- Jonathan Trigell

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“We fill pre-existing forms and when we fill them we change them and are changed.”

Source : Frank Bidart (2017). “Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016”, p.275, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“When there are no women on the tour it can get awful and ugly - constant horrible jokes and gross behaviour. It needs to be leavened with a feminine presence.”

Source : "I can't completely let go of drugs - and I don't want to" by Mat Snow, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2006.
“How about not equating death with stopping?”
“Rest of my life is more important to me than politics”
“I don't understand water and gravity.”
“How is it youâ€™ve never married?â€ A soft splash. â€œItâ€™s an easy enough thing. Every morning I wake up, go about my day, and return to bed at night without having recited marriage vows. After several years, I have the trick of it down.”
“The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.”
“For I had expected always Some brightness to hold in trust, Some final innocence To save from dust”

Source : 1933 'What I Expected, Was'.

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