26 Quotes by Philip Hensher
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Gay men needed lightbulbs too.
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Previously, gay life had seemed a merry series of cabinet reshuffles and rearrangements, in which everyone was single for a time, then paired off for a time. If you stood still with a welcoming smile on your face, sooner or later somebody would come over and sit on it.
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I’m reading Edmund White. It’s so nice. All about Jack Holmes and his great big penis. It’s like he’s got a little pet in the house that he needs to take for walks sometimes, in the park. I really like it.
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Blend in!’ Paul said. ‘Blend in!
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Why do we say ‘the cockles of your heart’?” David said. “Nothing to do with whelks, I suppose.
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If you don’t say anything it can’t become important, but if you say it everyone’s ever after got to walk round it like a pile of rocks in the living room.
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Emily and Fanny are doing their best to remain poker-stiff, firmly staring in their upright palanquins. But two hours on an elephant is as much as either of them can stand, and – after four times as long as that – they pine, they simply ache for the opportunity to complain, even more than the chance to rest.
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I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There’s some hollowness if they don’t.
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