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Hanif Kureishi quotes: Without parents who had time for her, at an early age she had made herself self-sufficient. Without parents who had time for her, at an early age she had made herself self-sufficient.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: There's a lot of degradation in sex, isn't there?""When it's done right. There's a lot of degradation in sex, isn't there?"
"When it's done right.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: The "master" would always be the one who could wait without anxiety; The "master" would always be the one who could wait without anxiety;
Hanif Kureishi quotes: The interesting people you wanted to be with - their minds were unusual, you saw things freshly with them and all was not deadness and repetition. The interesting people you wanted to be with - their minds were unusual, you saw things freshly with them and all was not deadness and repetition.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: Forgetting, along with hypocrisy, were, to him, the necessary arts central to living. Forgetting, along with hypocrisy, were, to him, the necessary arts central to living.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: A man who hasn't left behind him a string of broken women has hardly been alive. A man who hasn't left behind him a string of broken women has hardly been alive.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: After a bit you realize there's only one invaluable commodity. Not gold or love, but time. After a bit you realize there's only one invaluable commodity. Not gold or love, but time.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: Of course, when you love the unwell, you constantly have to ask yourself: Do I love her, or her illness? Am I her lover or her healer? Of course, when you love the unwell, you constantly have to ask yourself: Do I love her, or her illness? Am I her lover or her healer?
Hanif Kureishi quotes: Yes, Eleanor loathed herself and yet required praise, which she then never believed. Yes, Eleanor loathed herself and yet required praise, which she then never believed.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: Most people don't know how to maximize their pleasure, Harry, they sexualize their pain. Most people don't know how to maximize their pleasure, Harry, they sexualize their pain.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: Growing old isn't for pussies. Growing old isn't for pussies.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire. You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising. The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: Women only wear beautiful clothes so that men will want to remove them. Women only wear beautiful clothes so that men will want to remove them.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: I don't like being left for long struggling with my dangerous self. I don't like being left for long struggling with my dangerous self.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: The questions had become: What can we forgive in others? How far do they have to go before we lose faith in them? The questions had become: What can we forgive in others? How far do they have to go before we lose faith in them?
Hanif Kureishi quotes: One falls in love, and then learns, for the duration, that one is at the mercy of someone else's childhood. One falls in love, and then learns, for the duration, that one is at the mercy of someone else's childhood.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of getting out of it faster. If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of getting out of it faster.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: My father had the right idea. Begin from an assumption of insanity and then laugh, where possible. My father had the right idea. Begin from an assumption of insanity and then laugh, where possible.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: Suicide is one way of saying you're sorry. Suicide is one way of saying you're sorry.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: Desire makes me laugh because it makes fools of us all. Still, rather a fool than a fascist. Desire makes me laugh because it makes fools of us all. Still, rather a fool than a fascist.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: The truth is,everything we really desire is either forbidden,immoral or unhealthy, and if you're lucky, all three at once. The truth is,everything we really desire is either forbidden,immoral or unhealthy, and if you're lucky, all three at once.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: Doesn't civilisation mean keeping your temper when there is no reason for restraint? Doesn't civilisation mean keeping your temper when there is no reason for restraint?
Hanif Kureishi quotes: You're smart enough to recognize that the subjects of migraines and cats never fail with the women. Lead the old girl toward the mint tea. You're smart enough to recognize that the subjects of migraines and cats never fail with the women. Lead the old girl toward the mint tea.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: A monster is someone who's being monstered. A monster is someone who's being monstered.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: My son, there may be a time when I explain these things to you, because there may be a time when I understand them. My son, there may be a time when I explain these things to you, because there may be a time when I understand them.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: At detumescence, after all, there is conversation, that is where love begins. At detumescence, after all, there is conversation, that is where love begins.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: It is only the insane who achieve anything significant. It is only the insane who achieve anything significant.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: Old age is the new childhood. Old age is the new childhood.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: Not everything can be achieved alone. Not everything can be achieved alone.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: Security and safety were the reward of dullness. Security and safety were the reward of dullness.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: The best stories are the open ones, those you don't quite understand. The best stories are the open ones, those you don't quite understand.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: Please remove your watch,' he said. 'In my domain time isn't a factor. Please remove your watch,' he said. 'In my domain time isn't a factor.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: If jealousy was the vindaloo of love, I'd imagined her tongue burning, and such a fire forcing her to spill her truth. If jealousy was the vindaloo of love, I'd imagined her tongue burning, and such a fire forcing her to spill her truth.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: He was, after all, just a man. And not merely a narrative. He was, after all, just a man. And not merely a narrative.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed. What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: The truth is always a surprise. The truth is always a surprise.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: Being in love means being at the mercy of someone's childhood. Being in love means being at the mercy of someone's childhood.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: He would enjoy women more, she had informed him, if he understood their clothes. He would enjoy women more, she had informed him, if he understood their clothes.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: Someone to whom jokes are never told soon contracts enthusiasm deficiency. Someone to whom jokes are never told soon contracts enthusiasm deficiency.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses. If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: One night, when I am old, sick, right out of semen, and don't need things to get any worse, I hear the voices again. One night, when I am old, sick, right out of semen, and don't need things to get any worse, I hear the voices again.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida. I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly. I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: The artist was the proxy, the brave one, the one who spoke, was thanked, and who paid the price. The artist was the proxy, the brave one, the one who spoke, was thanked, and who paid the price.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: you can't just let people down, dammit. you can't just let people down, dammit.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: Any Advance in wisdom requires a good dose of shamelessness. Intimacy Any Advance in wisdom requires a good dose of shamelessness. Intimacy
Hanif Kureishi quotes: Born for disappointment, she only wanted what I couldn't give. Born for disappointment, she only wanted what I couldn't give.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: England's a nice place if you're rich, but otherwise it's a fucking swamp of prejudice, class confusion, the whole thing. England's a nice place if you're rich, but otherwise it's a fucking swamp of prejudice, class confusion, the whole thing.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: I love 'yes.' It's practically the most interesting word of all, don't you think? Like a hinge opening a door outward. Yes, yes, yes. I love 'yes.' It's practically the most interesting word of all, don't you think? Like a hinge opening a door outward. Yes, yes, yes.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs. How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: Who doesn't love cock? Who doesn't love cock?
Hanif Kureishi quotes: Transgression affirms the very rules it intends to flout. Nothing supports the norm like deviation. Transgression affirms the very rules it intends to flout. Nothing supports the norm like deviation.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: The mad were put in asylums, but the sane are worse off in their offices. The mad were put in asylums, but the sane are worse off in their offices.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: But in love each moment is magnified, and every gesture, word and syllable is examined like a speech by the President. But in love each moment is magnified, and every gesture, word and syllable is examined like a speech by the President.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: Marriage domesticates sex but frees love. It is unsuitable as a solution to human need, but as with capitalism, the alternatives are much worse. Marriage domesticates sex but frees love. It is unsuitable as a solution to human need, but as with capitalism, the alternatives are much worse.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: I was falling in love with myself. Not that beauty, or life itself, means much if you're in a room on your own. Heaven is other people. I was falling in love with myself. Not that beauty, or life itself, means much if you're in a room on your own. Heaven is other people.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: No amount of promises can guarantee love No amount of promises can guarantee love
Hanif Kureishi quotes: I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding. I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: If there's no sacrifice, there's no love. If there's no sacrifice, there's no love.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: 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. 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.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: It was easy to see that he was clever and well read, but he was also boring. It was easy to see that he was clever and well read, but he was also boring.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: Whoever thought that pleasure makes you happy? Whoever thought that pleasure makes you happy?
Hanif Kureishi quotes: And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language
Hanif Kureishi quotes: How utterly our past suffuses us. We live in all our days at once. How utterly our past suffuses us. We live in all our days at once.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: Surely you've noticed that most people live without love, spending their lives trying to find people they're not turned on by. Surely you've noticed that most people live without love, spending their lives trying to find people they're not turned on by.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: Desire, like the dead or an unpleasant meal, would keep returningit was ultimately indigestible. Desire, like the dead or an unpleasant meal, would keep returning
it was ultimately indigestible.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: But Harry wondered if he might be getting too old for the dispiriting adventure that seemed to inevitably accompany the need for human contact. But Harry wondered if he might be getting too old for the dispiriting adventure that seemed to inevitably accompany the need for human contact.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: I've said before, Harry, no need to hide your light," said Alice, squeezing his hand. She giggled, "Dance, monkey, dance. I've said before, Harry, no need to hide your light," said Alice, squeezing his hand. She giggled, "Dance, monkey, dance.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: I know you so well, and you'll feel guilty, simplifying everything, putting the emphasis here or there according to your interest. I know you so well, and you'll feel guilty, simplifying everything, putting the emphasis here or there according to your interest.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: Children, who have yet to learn our ways, are notoriously promiscuous in their affection. They'll sit on anyone's knee. Children, who have yet to learn our ways, are notoriously promiscuous in their affection. They'll sit on anyone's knee.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: Nothing consoles like the blues. Nothing consoles like the blues.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: One day everything changed. In the morning things were one way and by bedtime another. I was seventeen. One day everything changed. In the morning things were one way and by bedtime another. I was seventeen.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: Sex is like art: if you know what you're doing, you don't know what you're doing. Sex is like art: if you know what you're doing, you don't know what you're doing.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: It's frustration which makes creativity possible. It's frustration which makes creativity possible.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: 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. 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.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: For those of you curious about the menu, I am drinking tear soup. For those of you curious about the menu, I am drinking tear soup.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions. Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: He had some impression that happiness was beyond him and everything was coming down, and that life could not be grasped but only lived. He had some impression that happiness was beyond him and everything was coming down, and that life could not be grasped but only lived.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: What was marriage but sex plus property. What was marriage but sex plus property.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: I am dust and my story ends here. I am dust and my story ends here.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: People go their whole lives wanting to be admired for their hidden qualities. People go their whole lives wanting to be admired for their hidden qualities.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: YOU HAVE TO FIND THE RIGHT DISTANCE BETWEEN PEOPLE. TOO CLOSE, AND THEY OVERWHELM YOU, TOO FAR AND THEY ABANDON YOU. YOU HAVE TO FIND THE RIGHT DISTANCE BETWEEN PEOPLE. TOO CLOSE, AND THEY OVERWHELM YOU, TOO FAR AND THEY ABANDON YOU.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in. I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: You're one of those old-fashioned, romantic men for whom women aren't really there unless you decide we are. You're one of those old-fashioned, romantic men for whom women aren't really there unless you decide we are.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: Love cannot be measured by its duration... Love cannot be measured by its duration...
Hanif Kureishi quotes: Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job. Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: Nothing can be repaired or advanced but only accepted Nothing can be repaired or advanced but only accepted
Hanif Kureishi quotes: Is she always elusive?" "Her whole life's a no-show. Is she always elusive?" "Her whole life's a no-show.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: He felt like a criminal, though the only laws he'd broken were his own, and he wasn't sure which ones they were. He felt like a criminal, though the only laws he'd broken were his own, and he wasn't sure which ones they were.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: I can only think how good life on earth can be, at times. What grief two people can give to one another! And what pleasure! I can only think how good life on earth can be, at times. What grief two people can give to one another! And what pleasure!
Hanif Kureishi quotes: If you want to know a man, see how he is in love. If you want to know a man, see how he is in love.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it. I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: I could have ripped at those pages with my fingernails in order to get all of the material inside me. I could have ripped at those pages with my fingernails in order to get all of the material inside me.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: The past looks worse the closer you look at it. The past looks worse the closer you look at it.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: I have a rule about no material being sacred. I have a rule about no material being sacred.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: The truth is a tattoo on your forehead. You can't see it yourself. I am your mirror. The truth is a tattoo on your forehead. You can't see it yourself. I am your mirror.
Hanif Kureishi quotes: 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? 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?
Hanif Kureishi quotes: You see people truly when they enjoy the most. You see people truly when they enjoy the most.

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