"What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material, ..."

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Source : Alan Hollinghurst (2014). “The Line of Beauty: Picador Classic”, p.73, Pan Macmillan

Alan Hollinghurst

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“If you got to castrate your miser'ble self with a piece o' rusty barb wire, do it.”
“It feels much more natural to move forward and grow with the instruments I've grown accustomed to. Piano, accordion, brass, ukulele.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“He was a specialist in Feng Shui; that is to say, he was consulted as to the correct ubication and orientation of houses and temples, in relation to the spirits of wind and water.”

Source : Daniele Varè (1954). “Novels of Yen-Ching”
“A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.”
“Some people learn comedy, and some people just are comedy.”
“Such indeed is the superior longevity of the fair females of Surinam, compared to that of the males (owing chiefly, as I said, to their excesses of all sorts) that I have frequently known wives who have buried four husbands, but never met a man in this country who had survived two wives.”

Source : John Gabriel Stedman (1796). “Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition, Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam: In Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America; from the Year 1772, to 1777: Elucidating the History of that Country, and Describing Its Productions ... with an Account of the Indians of Guiana, & Negroes of Guinea. By Captn. J. G. Stedman ... ...”, p.28
“My dream is to continue dancing forever. I would kill myself if I didnâ€™t dance.”
“... I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as "writer's impatience", and to follow Arthur Koestler's dictum: "Soak; and wait.”

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