Hanif Kureishi

“Starenje nije za slabice.”

— Hanif Kureishi

Dear God, teach me to be careless.

— Hanif Kureishi

No amount of promises can guarantee love

— Hanif Kureishi

“Istina nas uvek iznenadi.”

— Hanif Kureishi

“Who doesn’t love cock?”

— Hanif Kureishi

Love cannot be measured by its duration...

— Hanif Kureishi

“Behind every vocation there is a fetish.”

— Hanif Kureishi

Fundamentalism is dictatorship of the mind

— Hanif Kureishi

Security and safety were the reward of dullness.

— Hanif Kureishi

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

— Hanif Kureishi

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

— Hanif Kureishi

“Whoever thought that pleasure makes you happy?”

— Hanif Kureishi

“Desire makes me laugh because it makes fools of us all. Still, rather a fool than a fascist.”

— Hanif Kureishi

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

— Hanif Kureishi

“So badly did he not want to fuck it up, he could only fuck it up.”

— Hanif Kureishi

“I don’t like being left for long struggling with my dangerous self.”

— Hanif Kureishi

“London seemed like a house with five thousand rooms, all different; the kick was to work out how they connected, and eventually…

— Hanif Kureishi

My father was a civil servant, so having a regular job, being respectable is a big deal for me. Respectable in the…

— Hanif Kureishi

“If jealousy was the vindaloo of love, I'd imagined her tongue burning, and such a fire forcing her to spill her truth.”

— Hanif Kureishi

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

— Hanif Kureishi

“Desire, like the dead or an unpleasant meal, would keep returning--it was ultimately indigestible.”

— 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

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

— Hanif Kureishi

“NIkad se nisam zamajavao nacelima vernosti ili okovima tradicionalnog. Cestitost je patolosko nasilje a dobrota prepreka.”

— Hanif Kureishi

“I know love is dark work; you have to get your hands dirty. If you hold back, nothing interesting happens. At the…

— Hanif Kureishi

“But to be able to bear one's own mind, to wait while the inner storm of intolerable thoughts blows itself out, leaving…

— Hanif Kureishi

“In chili’s hand were his car keys, Ray-bans and Marlboros, without which he wouldn't leave his bathroom. Chili drank only black coffee…

— Hanif Kureishi

Watching Jamila sometimes made me think the world was divided into three sorts of people: those who knew what they wanted to…

— Hanif Kureishi

All the same, my depression and self-hatred, my desire to mutilate myself with broken bottles, my numbness and crying fits, my inability…

— Hanif Kureishi

“The city blew the windows of my brain wide open. But being in a place so bright, fast and brilliant made you…

— Hanif Kureishi

“Apparently the town, a triumph of post-war socialist planning was a sewer, full of tattooed beasts and violent zombies, with vomit and…

— Hanif Kureishi

“To be well married you have to a penchant for the intricacies of intimacy and larval change..If the personality is a spider's…

— Hanif Kureishi

My pleasures disappeared with my vices.

— Hanif Kureishi

“Doesn’t civilisation mean keeping your temper when there is no reason for restraint?”

— Hanif Kureishi

“Yes, Eleanor loathed herself and yet required praise, which she then never believed.”

— Hanif Kureishi

“It was easy to see that he was clever and well read, but he was also boring.”

— Hanif Kureishi

“How utterly our past suffuses us. We live in all our days at once.”

— Hanif Kureishi

“Nije li erotika neutaziva glad koja samu sebe pothranjuje?”

— Hanif Kureishi

“Someone to whom jokes are never told soon contracts enthusiasm deficiency.”

— Hanif Kureishi

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

— Hanif Kureishi