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Now he had chanced on one of he standard hard-on sessions of the shower, as on both sides of him and across the room three queens sported horizontal members which they turned around from time to time...

Alan Hollinghurst

Now he had chanced on one of he standard hard-on sessions of the shower, as on both sides of him and across the room three queens sported horizontal members which they turned around from time to time...

Tags: hard on, maleness, penis, reflexes, shower room

Delight is délice, délit is a misdemeanour''Well, it's bloody close...''Well, they often are....

Alan Hollinghurst

Delight is délice, délit is a misdemeanour''Well, it's bloody close...''Well, they often are....

Tags: forbidden fruit, french, sin

About Author
Alan James Hollinghurst (born 26 May 1954) is an English novelist, poet, short story writer and translator. He won the 1989 Somerset Maugham Award, the 1994 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and for his novel The Line of Beauty the 2004 Booker Prize. Hollinghurst is credited with having helped gay-themed fiction to break into the literary mainstream through his six novels since 1988.

There is a sort of aesthetic poverty about conservatism

Alan Hollinghurst

There is a sort of aesthetic poverty about conservatism

Tags: conservatism, politics

She felt something similar, but worse in a way, about hundreds and hundreds of books she’d read, novels, biographies, occasional books, about music and art—she could remember nothing about them at all...

Alan Hollinghurst

She felt something similar, but worse in a way, about hundreds and hundreds of books she’d read, novels, biographies, occasional books, about music and art—she could remember nothing about them at all...

Tags: books, remembering, what s the name of that book

To apologize for what you most wanted to do, to concede that it was obnoxious, boring, 'vulgar and unsafe' --- that was the worst thing.

Alan Hollinghurst

To apologize for what you most wanted to do, to concede that it was obnoxious, boring, 'vulgar and unsafe' --- that was the worst thing.

My months in the Scrubs were a kind of desert in time: beyond their strict and ascetic routines they were featureless, and it is hard in retrospect to know what one did on any day or even in any month...

Alan Hollinghurst

My months in the Scrubs were a kind of desert in time: beyond their strict and ascetic routines they were featureless, and it is hard in retrospect to know what one did on any day or even in any month...

He thought other resourceful people would have come, over the years, to look at it, and that the house would wear its own mild frown of self-regard, a certain half-friendly awareness of being admired....

Alan Hollinghurst

He thought other resourceful people would have come, over the years, to look at it, and that the house would wear its own mild frown of self-regard, a certain half-friendly awareness of being admired....

There are chaps who don’t care for them, you know. Simply can’t abide them. Can’t stand the sight of them, their titties and their big sit-upons,

Alan Hollinghurst

There are chaps who don’t care for them, you know. Simply can’t abide them. Can’t stand the sight of them, their titties and their big sit-upons,

They had kissed the first time they did coke together, their first kiss, Wani’s mouth sour with wine, his tongue darting, his eyes timidly closed. Each time after that was a re-enactment of a thrillin...

Alan Hollinghurst

They had kissed the first time they did coke together, their first kiss, Wani’s mouth sour with wine, his tongue darting, his eyes timidly closed. Each time after that was a re-enactment of a thrillin...

The birdsong was so loud that after it had woken you it drove you back to sleep.

Alan Hollinghurst

The birdsong was so loud that after it had woken you it drove you back to sleep.

The music expressed life and explained it and left you having to ask again.

Alan Hollinghurst

The music expressed life and explained it and left you having to ask again.

The peculiar things a singer did with words, the vowels that turned into other vowels under the strain of a high note, made it all harder and weirder. Picturing

Alan Hollinghurst

The peculiar things a singer did with words, the vowels that turned into other vowels under the strain of a high note, made it all harder and weirder. Picturing

Something happened when you looked in the mirror together. You asked it, as always, a question, and you asked each other something too; and the space, shadowy but glossy, the further room in which you...

Alan Hollinghurst

Something happened when you looked in the mirror together. You asked it, as always, a question, and you asked each other something too; and the space, shadowy but glossy, the further room in which you...

There was the noise itself, which he thought of vaguely as the noise of classical music, sameish and rhetorical, full of feelings people surely never had

Alan Hollinghurst

There was the noise itself, which he thought of vaguely as the noise of classical music, sameish and rhetorical, full of feelings people surely never had

Consoling and yet absurd, how the sexual imagination took such easy possession of the ungiving world. I was certainly not alone in this carriage in sliding my thoughts between the legs of other passen...

Alan Hollinghurst

Consoling and yet absurd, how the sexual imagination took such easy possession of the ungiving world. I was certainly not alone in this carriage in sliding my thoughts between the legs of other passen...

Tags: london, train

It was a refinement of teasing, where you were never told why your answer was wrong.

Alan Hollinghurst

It was a refinement of teasing, where you were never told why your answer was wrong.

He seemed to fade pretty quickly. He found himself yearning to know of their affairs, their successes, the novels and the new ideas that the few who remembered him might say he never knew, he never li...

Alan Hollinghurst

He seemed to fade pretty quickly. He found himself yearning to know of their affairs, their successes, the novels and the new ideas that the few who remembered him might say he never knew, he never li...

He somehow saw that to her being drunk had its whole long sentimental history, whereas to him it was a freakish novelty.

Alan Hollinghurst

He somehow saw that to her being drunk had its whole long sentimental history, whereas to him it was a freakish novelty.

'Can't really say?' Nick said, and heard, as he sometimes did, his own father's note of evasive sympathy. It was how his family sidled round its various crises; nothing was named, and you never knew f...

Alan Hollinghurst

'Can't really say?' Nick said, and heard, as he sometimes did, his own father's note of evasive sympathy. It was how his family sidled round its various crises; nothing was named, and you never knew f...

Paul was blandness itself, just tinged with pink.

Alan Hollinghurst

Paul was blandness itself, just tinged with pink.