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Quotes from The Line of Beauty – Alan Hollinghurst

January 15, 2010

“His confessed but entirely imaginary seductions took on – partly through the special effort required to invent them and repeat […]

January 13, 2010

“Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is

January 11, 2010

“I’m flayed – no past now. I could give up anything…I want to live now. I can be anything I

January 11, 2010

“What about the economics and politics of appearance? Don’t entire industries flourish by manufacturing discontent over so-called problems (from thin

January 10, 2010

“Can you, for a moment, imagine how depressing it is to teach five centuries of masculine ineptitude? History is a

January 10, 2010

“Alex was very quiet, and Danny wondered if he knew what was coming. He probably did, he was very sensitive;

January 9, 2010

“When I was only three years old, Mama found me on the floor with a book pulled tightly against my

January 9, 2010

“That’s why same-sex marriage seems so important for many gay activists at this point in our history. It stands for

January 6, 2010

“But what sort of thing is love? First of all, it is a joint experience between two persons, but that