“People go their whole lives wanting to be admired for their hidden qualities.” — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed. — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
Why do people who are good at families have to be smug and assume it is the only way to live. …… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida. — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
At the deepest level people are madder than they want to believe. You will find that they fear being eaten, and are… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
At the same time, you have to find the right distance between people. Too close, and they overwhelm you, too far and… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
Like you, she will have been with other people, but I've got a feeling there's something between you. — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
Watching Jamila sometimes made me think the world was divided into three sorts of people: those who knew what they wanted to… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
“For Mum, life was fundamentally hell. You went blind, you got raped, people forgot your birthday, Nixon got elected, your husband fled… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
Secrets are my currency: I deal in them for a living. The secrets of desire, of what people really want, and of… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share
I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly. — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share
Harvey [Weinstein] didn't want to release [MY SON THE FANATIC]; he held it for two years because he wanted a happy ending, although I… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share
“Ali isto tako sam i shvatio da prestupnistvo samo ucvrscuje pravila koja pokusava da prekrsi. Nista ne osnazuje normu kao odstupanje od nje.” — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share
One would hope, as well that intimacy would leave more of a mark, that more of it would remain. But it doesn’t. You just… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share
I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share
What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed. — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share
“People who were only ever half right about things drove me mad. I hated the flood of opinion, the certainty, the easy talk about… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share
“Desire is naughty and doesn't conform to our ideals, which is why we have such a need of them. Desire mocks all human endeavour… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share
I began to enjoy my own generosity; I felt the pleasure of pleasing others, especially as this was accompanied by money-power. I was paying… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share
“Maybe you never stop feeling like an eight-year-old in front of your parents. You resolve to be your mature self, to react in this… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share
