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  1. Hanif Kureishi _ The Last Word: A Novel

    illegal drugs are better for you than the legal stuff. How many artists have created while drunk, high on laudanum, opium, chloral, or amphetamines? What have antidepressants ever done for culture?"
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  2. Hanif Kureishi _ The Last Word: A Novel

    This ghost of a mother had begun to ask him questions about who he was and who he truly loved. Was he capable of love?
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  3. Hanif Kureishi _ The Last Word: A Novel

    But Harry wondered if he might be getting too old for the dispiriting adventure that seemed to inevitably accompany the need for human contact.
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  4. Hanif Kureishi _ The Last Word: A Novel

    The point is, Harry, if I'm not to find you abhorrent, there will have to be more reciprocity all round. Particularly from your side.
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  5. Hanif Kureishi _ The Last Word: A Novel

    Harry had loved most of the arts long enough to know that artists had to be excused failings which would condemn the general population.
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  6. Hanif Kureishi _ The Last Word: A Novel

    The artist was the proxy, the brave one, the one who spoke, was thanked, and who paid the price.
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  7. Hanif Kureishi _ The Last Word: A Novel

    Is she always elusive?" "Her whole life's a no-show.
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  8. Hanif Kureishi _ The Last Word: A Novel

    She screamed-more like a week. She informed me that a woman who doesn't have an orgasm a day will get dry skin, and lines. According to her you should rub your lover's semen into your forehead."
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  9. Hanif Kureishi _ The Last Word: A Novel

    He would enjoy women more, she had informed him, if he understood their clothes.
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  10. Hanif Kureishi _ The Last Word: A Novel

    Because it is about that which we can't be prepared for-the great test we men have passed before, but have no way of knowing we will pass again.
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  11. Hanif Kureishi _ The Last Word: A Novel

    For him, the writer should be the very devil, a disturber of dreams and wrecker of fatuous utopias, the bringer-in of reality, and rival of God in his wish to make worlds.
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  12. Hanif Kureishi _ The Last Word: A Novel

    Most people don't know how to maximize their pleasure, Harry, they sexualize their pain.
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