I have not read anything by Hollinghurst, and if the two sentences quoted are typical of his writing style, I am quite put off.

"Precise questioning is imperative as a predicate for the offense of perjury", he said, one last time, a sentence frequently quoted since then.

I am angered and dismayed that Ms. Smith would reduce a creative relationship of 14 years to one sentence quoted out of context.

So was a single sentence quoted from one of the deported Palestinians, "I'm losing the most important thing in my life, my home."

Thus the first sentence quoted above is accurate.

This paper contained the sentence so often quoted since, "A physical fact is as sacred as a moral principle.

To the sentence quoted above he added the words, "which will be preceded by a great prelude".

Thus the points made in the sentence quoted by Price are more than underlined in the final text.

Here is the next sentence of the Rubin post quoted above:

This sentence, quoted without the indication of its true source, could be interpreted as ignorance of one, or rather the principal truth of Christian belief.