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Without parents who had time for her, at an early age she had made herself self-sufficient. — Hanif Kureishi

The "master" would always be the one who could wait without anxiety; — Hanif Kureishi

Forgetting, along with hypocrisy, were, to him, the necessary arts central to living. — Hanif Kureishi

A man who hasn't left behind him a string of broken women has hardly been alive. — Hanif Kureishi

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

Does sex make life worth living? Didn't you say, the other day, 'Our lives are only as good as our orgasms'? — Hanif Kureishi

Yes, Eleanor loathed herself and yet required praise, which she then never believed. — Hanif Kureishi

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

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

Dear God, teach me to be careless. — Hanif Kureishi

The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising. — Hanif Kureishi

Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. — Hanif Kureishi

Women only wear beautiful clothes so that men will want to remove them. — Hanif Kureishi

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

One falls in love, and then learns, for the duration, that one is at the mercy of someone else's childhood. — Hanif Kureishi

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

My father had the right idea. Begin from an assumption of insanity and then laugh, where possible. — Hanif Kureishi

My pleasures disappeared with my vices. — Hanif Kureishi

Desire makes me laugh because it makes fools of us all. Still, rather a fool than a fascist. — Hanif Kureishi

The truth is,everything we really desire is either forbidden,immoral or unhealthy, and if you're lucky, all three at once. — Hanif Kureishi

Doesn't civilisation mean keeping your temper when there is no reason for restraint? — Hanif Kureishi

The madness of writing was the antidote to true madness. — Hanif Kureishi

A monster is someone who's being monstered. — Hanif Kureishi

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

At detumescence, after all, there is conversation, that is where love begins. — Hanif Kureishi

It is only the insane who achieve anything significant. — Hanif Kureishi

The news I bring is to say that, man being the only animal who hates himself, the likely fate of the world is total self-destruction. — Hanif Kureishi

Like you, she will have been with other people, but I've got a feeling there's something between you. — Hanif Kureishi

Without love, most of life remains concealed. Nothing is as fascinating as love, unfortunately. — Hanif Kureishi

Security and safety were the reward of dullness. — Hanif Kureishi

The best stories are the open ones, those you don't quite understand. — Hanif Kureishi

Please remove your watch,' he said. 'In my domain time isn't a factor. — Hanif Kureishi

He was, after all, just a man. And not merely a narrative. — Hanif Kureishi

What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed. — Hanif Kureishi

The truth is always a surprise. — Hanif Kureishi

Being in love means being at the mercy of someone's childhood. — Hanif Kureishi

He would enjoy women more, she had informed him, if he understood their clothes. — Hanif Kureishi

The artist was the proxy, the brave one, the one who spoke, was thanked, and who paid the price. — Hanif Kureishi

If you want to know a man, see how he is in love. — Hanif Kureishi

Someone to whom jokes are never told soon contracts enthusiasm deficiency. — Hanif Kureishi

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

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

You're one of those old-fashioned, romantic men for whom women aren't really there unless you decide we are. — Hanif Kureishi

Love cannot be measured by its duration... — Hanif Kureishi

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

Nothing can be repaired or advanced but only accepted — Hanif Kureishi

Is she always elusive?" "Her whole life's a no-show. — Hanif Kureishi

Born for disappointment, she only wanted what I couldn't give. — Hanif Kureishi

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

Women are brought up to think of others. [ ... ] When I start to think of myself I feel sick. — Hanif Kureishi

Transgression affirms the very rules it intends to flout. Nothing supports the norm like deviation. — Hanif Kureishi

Any Advance in wisdom requires a good dose of shamelessness. Intimacy — Hanif Kureishi

But in love each moment is magnified, and every gesture, word and syllable is examined like a speech by the President. — Hanif Kureishi

you can't just let people down, dammit. — Hanif Kureishi

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

I have a rule about no material being sacred. — Hanif Kureishi

I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida. — Hanif Kureishi

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

If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses. — Hanif Kureishi

I don't have a deep link with England like, say, Jonathan Coe or Hanif Kureishi might demonstrate. For me, it is like a mythical place. — Kazuo Ishiguro

How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs. — Hanif Kureishi

Who doesn't love cock? — Hanif Kureishi

It was easy to see that he was clever and well read, but he was also boring. — Hanif Kureishi

I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly. — Hanif Kureishi

I'm turning off; rebelling against rebellion. — Hanif Kureishi

One day everything changed. In the morning things were one way and by bedtime another. I was seventeen. — Hanif Kureishi

How utterly our past suffuses us. We live in all our days at once. — Hanif Kureishi

It's frustration which makes creativity possible. — Hanif Kureishi

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

The cruellest thing you can do to Kerouac is reread him at thirty-eight. — Hanif Kureishi

For those of you curious about the menu, I am drinking tear soup. — Hanif Kureishi

Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions. — Hanif Kureishi

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

Nothing consoles like the blues. — Hanif Kureishi

What was marriage but sex plus property. — Hanif Kureishi

I am dust and my story ends here. — Hanif Kureishi

People go their whole lives wanting to be admired for their hidden qualities. — Hanif Kureishi

No amount of promises can guarantee love — Hanif Kureishi

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

Behind every vocation there is a fetish. — Hanif Kureishi

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

You see people truly when they enjoy the most. — Hanif Kureishi

I've learned that unfeeling, bloodsucking men like you need to reduce women to manageable cliches, even to destroy them, for the sake of control. — Hanif Kureishi

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

As suburbs go, Bromley's not bad. But as David Bowie and Hanif Kureishi have observed, you do want to get out of there quickly. — Tibor Fischer

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

The past looks worse the closer you look at it. — Hanif Kureishi

I could have ripped at those pages with my fingernails in order to get all of the material inside me. — Hanif Kureishi

The truth is a tattoo on your forehead. You can't see it yourself. I am your mirror. — Hanif Kureishi

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

Those magical fucks, when everything else falls away. — Hanif Kureishi

YOU HAVE TO FIND THE RIGHT DISTANCE BETWEEN PEOPLE. TOO CLOSE, AND THEY OVERWHELM YOU, TOO FAR AND THEY ABANDON YOU. — Hanif Kureishi

Sex is like art: if you know what you're doing, you don't know what you're doing. — Hanif Kureishi

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

Desire, like the dead or an unpleasant meal, would keep returning
it was ultimately indigestible. — Hanif Kureishi

My guess is that she is uncomfortable in such an intransigent world but is unable to live accordingly to her own desire. — Hanif Kureishi

I've said before, Harry, no need to hide your light," said Alice, squeezing his hand. She giggled, "Dance, monkey, dance. — Hanif Kureishi

Fundamentalism is dictatorship of the mind — Hanif Kureishi

I know you so well, and you'll feel guilty, simplifying everything, putting the emphasis here or there according to your interest. — Hanif Kureishi

Children, who have yet to learn our ways, are notoriously promiscuous in their affection. They'll sit on anyone's knee. — Hanif Kureishi