Hollinghurst Author Quotes & Sayings

Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against this fiction. The reader will recognize the world that you're talking about, even though it may be another one altogether — Theodore Sturgeon

Look after yourself and each other — Jerry Springer

If you owe too much on American Express,
and your Diner's Club notes are too hard,
take a loan on your Visa,
and pay it off with your MasterCard! — Nipsey Russell

All truth is very ordinary. It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. — Brian Perkins

No century has been more concerned than ours to do away with war: it has proved signally unsuccessful. All too little attention has been given to the phenomenon that internal politics have become increasingly more warlike. — Bertrand De Jouvenel

Stop looking back when your future is ahead of you. — Ricky Maye

Anyone who sincerely wanted to use policy to reduce illegal immigration should start by crafting legislation based on changing actual behavior. — Jose Ferreira

Prosperity is founded upon a law of mutual exchange. Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper, in turn, himself. Sometimes the return will not come from those you serve, but it must come to you from someplace, for that is the law. — Earl Nightingale

The transition to a salaried workforce had doomed the nuclear family and led to the complete atomization of society, — Michel Houellebecq

Frankly, if her face wasn't so cute, I would most certainly have been punching it. — Wataru Watari