"He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love."

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Source : Alan Hollinghurst (2014). “The Line of Beauty: Picador Classic”, p.77, Pan Macmillan

Alan Hollinghurst

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“All the modelling we do shows that the climate is poised on the jump up to a new hot state. It is accelerating so fast that you could say that we are already in it.”
“...things are the way they are in our universe because if they weren't, we wouldn't be here to notice.”
“One wit, like a knuckle of ham in soup, gives a zest and flavour to the dish, but more than one serves only to spoil the pottage.”

Source : Tobias Smollett (1820). “The expedition of Humphry Clinker”, p.161
“What is a modern poet's fate? / To write his thoughts upon a slate; / The critic spits on what is done, / Gives it a wipe - and all is gone.”
“True friendship is when you walk into their house and your WiFi connects automatically.”
“So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?”
“On the subject of the feminist business, I just never think...of qualities which are specifically feminine or masculine. I suppose I divide people into two classes: the Irksome and the Non-Irksome without regard to sex. Yes and there are the Medium Irksome and the Rare Irksome.”
“In teaching, the other main problem related to type is the studentsâ€™ interest. Intuitives and sensing types differ greatly in what they find interesting in any subject even if they like, that is, are interested in, the same subjects. Intuitives like the principle, the theory, the why. Sensing types like the practical application, the what and the how.”

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