Hanif Kureishi

“Krivcu mozes da radis sta ti padne na pamet.”

— Hanif Kureishi

“Old age is the new childhood.”

— Hanif Kureishi

“I am dust and my story ends here.”

— Hanif Kureishi

“Nothing consoles like the blues.”

— Hanif Kureishi

“Growing old isn’t for pussies.”

— Hanif Kureishi

“The truth is always a surprise.”

— Hanif Kureishi

“Tisina je, a tisina je glasan zvuk.”

— Hanif Kureishi

“A monster is someone who’s being monstered.”

— Hanif Kureishi

“Herir a alguien es un acto de involuntaria intimidad”

— Hanif Kureishi

Nothing can be repaired or advanced but only accepted

— Hanif Kureishi

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

— Hanif Kureishi

“Women are brought up to think of others. [...] When I start to think of myself I feel sick.”

— Hanif Kureishi

I don't want to be loved. I want to be desired. Love is safety, but desire is foul.

— Hanif Kureishi

“Erosova masinerija sastavlja i rastavlja, obnavlja u coveku zudnju za zivotom.”

— Hanif Kureishi

“Sex is like art: if you know what you’re doing, you don’t know what you’re doing.”

— Hanif Kureishi

“People go their whole lives wanting to be admired for their hidden qualities.”

— Hanif Kureishi

Why do people who are good at families have to be smug and assume it is the only way to live. ……

— Hanif Kureishi

“My son, there may be a time when I explain these things to you, because there may be a time when I…

— 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

“YOU HAVE TO FIND THE RIGHT DISTANCE BETWEEN PEOPLE. TOO CLOSE, AND THEY OVERWHELM YOU, TOO FAR AND THEY ABANDON YOU.”

— Hanif Kureishi

“Sometimes writers like to imagine that the difficulty of becoming a writer resides in convincing others that that is what you are.…

— Hanif Kureishi

“I have learned that the libido, like Elvis and jealousy, never dies. I know copulators of eighty-five. Who said you need an…

— Hanif Kureishi

“Ako pomislim što je pakao - to je kad si sam zauvijek u sobi 101 i nemaš što čitati osim njegovih (Orwellovih) knjiga.”

— 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

Almost certainly I will not tell her my intentions this evening or tonight. I will put it off. Why? Because words are…

— Hanif Kureishi

Anna Karenina is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. Its gossip,…

— Hanif Kureishi

“Sometimes I felt the whole world was converging on this little room. And as I became more intoxicated and frustrated I'd throw…

— Hanif Kureishi

“The girl had many virtues: money, a car--a gold-coloured Capri, in which she played the latest funk--a big house and a rich…

— Hanif Kureishi

It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What…

— Hanif Kureishi

“However angry I was with him, however much I wanted to humiliate Terry, I suddenly saw such humanity in his eyes, and…

— Hanif Kureishi

“Act – make an event. Smash the coordinates and see where the smithereens fly. Let in the madness, and be sure to…

— Hanif Kureishi

I began to enjoy my own generosity; I felt the pleasure of pleasing others, especially as this was accompanied by money-power. I…

— Hanif Kureishi

“I didn't want to be educated. It wasn't the right time of my life for concentration, it really wasn't. The spirit of…

— Hanif Kureishi

If you never left anything or anyone there would be no room for the new. Naturally, to move on is an infidelity…

— Hanif Kureishi

“Maybe you never stop feeling like an eight-year-old in front of your parents. You resolve to be your mature self, to react…

— Hanif Kureishi

“Desire is naughty and doesn't conform to our ideals, which is why we have such a need of them. Desire mocks all…

— Hanif Kureishi

“Yet velvet curtains, soft cheese, compelling work and boys who can run full-tilt—it isn't enough. And if it isn't, it isn't. There's…

— Hanif Kureishi

“As I watched Jamila I thought what a terrific person she'd become. She was low today, and she was often scornful of…

— Hanif Kureishi

“He died at the wrong time, when there was much to be clarified and established. They hadn’t even started to be grown-ups…

— Hanif Kureishi

Secrets are my currency: I deal in them for a living. The secrets of desire, of what people really want, and of…

— Hanif Kureishi