Hanif Kureishi Quotes
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Hanif Kureishi Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
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?
You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.
The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.
The questions had become: What can we forgive in others? How far do they have to go before we lose faith in them?
One falls in love, and then learns, for the duration, that one is at the mercy of someone else's childhood.
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.
The truth is,everything we really desire is either forbidden,immoral or unhealthy, and if you're lucky, all three at once.
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.
My son, there may be a time when I explain these things to you, because there may be a time when I understand them.
If jealousy was the vindaloo of love, I'd imagined her tongue burning, and such a fire forcing her to spill her truth.
If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.
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.
England's a nice place if you're rich, but otherwise it's a fucking swamp of prejudice, class confusion, the whole thing.
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.
But in love each moment is magnified, and every gesture, word and syllable is examined like a speech by the President.
Marriage domesticates sex but frees love. It is unsuitable as a solution to human need, but as with capitalism, the alternatives are much worse.
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.
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.
Surely you've noticed that most people live without love, spending their lives trying to find people they're not turned on by.
But Harry wondered if he might be getting too old for the dispiriting adventure that seemed to inevitably accompany the need for human contact.
I've said before, Harry, no need to hide your light," said Alice, squeezing his hand. She giggled, "Dance, monkey, dance.
I know you so well, and you'll feel guilty, simplifying everything, putting the emphasis here or there according to your interest.
Children, who have yet to learn our ways, are notoriously promiscuous in their affection. They'll sit on anyone's knee.
One day everything changed. In the morning things were one way and by bedtime another. I was seventeen.
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.
Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.
He had some impression that happiness was beyond him and everything was coming down, and that life could not be grasped but only lived.
YOU HAVE TO FIND THE RIGHT DISTANCE BETWEEN PEOPLE. TOO CLOSE, AND THEY OVERWHELM YOU, TOO FAR AND THEY ABANDON YOU.
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.
You're one of those old-fashioned, romantic men for whom women aren't really there unless you decide we are.
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.
He felt like a criminal, though the only laws he'd broken were his own, and he wasn't sure which ones they were.
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'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 could have ripped at those pages with my fingernails in order to get all of the material inside me.