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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.

Alan Hollinghurst

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Alan Hollinghurst
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: May 26
Literary Critic
Novelist
Translator
University Teacher
Writer
Stroud
Gloucestershire
Alan James Hollinghurst
Vulgar
Boring
Worst
Wanted
Concede
Thing
Unsafe
Obnoxious
Apologize
Apologizing

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