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The Line of Beauty (2004)
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To apologize for what you most wanted to do, to concede that it was obnoxious, boring, 'vulgar and unsafe' — that was the worst thing.
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He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.
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All his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for.
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What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material,...
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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May 26, 1954
(age 70)
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