Quotes by Andrew Holleran, Dancer from the Dance

Explore a curated collection of 28 quotes by Andrew Holleran, Dancer from the Dance. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

For the fact was drugs were not necessary to most of us, because the music, youth, sweaty bodies were enough. And if it — Andrew Holleran, Dancer from the Dance
They were bound together by a common love of a certain kind of music, physical beauty, and style—all the things one shou — Andrew Holleran, Dancer from the Dance
We lived only to dance. What was the true characteristic of a queen, I wondered later on; and you could argue that forev — Andrew Holleran, Dancer from the Dance
For that is the curious quality of the discotheque after you have gone there a long time: in the midst of all the lights — Andrew Holleran, Dancer from the Dance
Living for beauty is all very fine, but it’s a hard regimen and burns up the heart very quickly. — Andrew Holleran, Dancer from the Dance
You know, we queens loathed rain at the beach, small cocks, and reality, I think. In that order. — Andrew Holleran, Dancer from the Dance
But Malone was thinking now and as he watched the men lighting cigarettes for each other in the dark, having sex beneath — Andrew Holleran, Dancer from the Dance
He did not wish to be the man to whom nothing was ever to happen. — Andrew Holleran, Dancer from the Dance
I’m in mid-passage, darling,” he said, beginning to talk like a queen so as to demystify himself, so as to destroy the v — Andrew Holleran, Dancer from the Dance
A moral man is essentially dumbfounded when confronted by a man who is amoral—everything the latter does is met with a c — Andrew Holleran, Dancer from the Dance
Never forget that all these people are primarily a visual people. They are designers, window dressers, models, photograp — Andrew Holleran, Dancer from the Dance
The more beautiful the sky, the more hopeless the neighborhood. — Andrew Holleran, Dancer from the Dance
Malone had been raised by a lady both Irish and Catholic, in a good bourgeois home in which careless table manners were — Andrew Holleran, Dancer from the Dance
Love is a career with its own stages, rewards, and failures . . . a vocation as concrete as a calling in the Church, wor — Andrew Holleran, Dancer from the Dance
They were the most romantic creatures in the city in that room. If their days were spent in banks and office buildings, — Andrew Holleran, Dancer from the Dance
You know, when people who were once religious no longer believe in God, they never really change; they just go on, hunti — Andrew Holleran, Dancer from the Dance
Imagine a pleasure in which the moment of satisfaction is simultaneous with the moment of destruction: to kiss is to poi — Andrew Holleran, Dancer from the Dance
The greatest drug of all, my dear, was not one of those pills in so many colors that you took over the years, was not th — Andrew Holleran, Dancer from the Dance
[…] and the only reason he came out at all, during that period after he left Frankie, when he wanted to go away and hide — Andrew Holleran, Dancer from the Dance
Tomorrow the rush of men, all working for a living, would drown him; but now, at this moment, in this soft green twiligh — Andrew Holleran, Dancer from the Dance