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Get some sleep, Secretary General, get some sleep. Revolution can wait till the morning.
— Mohammed Hanif
Without parents who had time for her, at an early age she had made herself self-sufficient.
— Hanif Kureishi
Forgetting, along with hypocrisy, were, to him, the necessary arts central to living.
— Hanif Kureishi
After a bit you realize there's only one invaluable commodity. Not gold or love, but time.
— Hanif Kureishi
life is a series of sweet coincidences
— Mohammed Hanif
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
Yes, Eleanor loathed herself and yet required praise, which she then never believed.
— Hanif Kureishi
It's futile to predict what love will make of you, but sometimes it brings you things you never knew you wanted.
— Mohammed Hanif
What's with books and soldiers? I wonder. The whole bloody army is turning into pansy intellectuals.
— Mohammed Hanif
Any man who reaches for a book when he thinks about you is a man that you should think about.
— Mohammed Hanif
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
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
Desire makes me laugh because it makes fools of us all. Still, rather a fool than a fascist.
— Hanif Kureishi
He won't stop the war until you give him the peace prize.
— Mohammed Hanif
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
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
Clothes and accessories were a person's creativity; how someone looked was always a free decision, like a brushstroke on a painting.
— 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
He was, after all, just a man. And not merely a narrative.
— Hanif Kureishi
The truth is always a surprise.
— Hanif Kureishi
Being in love means being at the mercy of someone's childhood.
— 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
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
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
Nothing can be repaired or advanced but only accepted
— Hanif Kureishi
Is she always elusive?" "Her whole life's a no-show.
— Hanif Kureishi
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
Men constantly feel hungry and women constantly feel sad. That's what marriage does to them. ~Teddy Butt, Our Lady of Alice Bhatti
— Mohammed Hanif
YOU HAVE TO FIND THE RIGHT DISTANCE BETWEEN PEOPLE. TOO CLOSE, AND THEY OVERWHELM YOU, TOO FAR AND THEY ABANDON YOU.
— Hanif Kureishi
The past looks worse the closer you look at it.
— Hanif Kureishi
I have a rule about no material being sacred.
— 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
My guess is that she is uncomfortable in such an intransigent world but is unable to live accordingly to her own desire.
— 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
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
Born for disappointment, she only wanted what I couldn't give.
— Hanif Kureishi
If you want to know a man, see how he is in love.
— 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
The innocent are punished. That's the world we live in.
— Mohammed Hanif
Women are brought up to think of others. [ ... ] When I start to think of myself I feel sick.
— Hanif Kureishi
The artist was the proxy, the brave one, the one who spoke, was thanked, and who paid the price.
— Hanif Kureishi
Transgression affirms the very rules it intends to flout. Nothing supports the norm like deviation.
— Hanif Kureishi
Have you ever realised that if a person can make you angry, that person actually controls you.
— Hanif Hassan Barbhuiya
But in love each moment is magnified, and every gesture, word and syllable is examined like a speech by the President.
— 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
If there's no sacrifice, there's no love.
— 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
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
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
One day everything changed. In the morning things were one way and by bedtime another. I was seventeen.
— Hanif Kureishi
You see people truly when they enjoy the most.
— Hanif Kureishi
I'm turning off; rebelling against rebellion.
— Hanif Kureishi
What was marriage but sex plus property.
— Hanif Kureishi
I am dust and my story ends here.
— Hanif Kureishi
Why is it so tough to forget pain and tougher to remember happiness.
We treasure our scars but forget to live on our smiles. — Hanif Hassan Barbhuiya
We treasure our scars but forget to live on our smiles. — Hanif Hassan Barbhuiya
No amount of promises can guarantee love
— Hanif Kureishi
Desire, like the dead or an unpleasant meal, would keep returning
it was ultimately indigestible. — Hanif Kureishi
it was ultimately indigestible. — 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
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
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
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
Hope brings chances;
Chances gives hope;
And hoping for chances is what life is all about. — Hanif Hassan Barbhuiya
Chances gives hope;
And hoping for chances is what life is all about. — Hanif Hassan Barbhuiya
I could have ripped at those pages with my fingernails in order to get all of the material inside me.
— 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
Nothing consoles like the blues.
— Hanif Kureishi