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
“I can only think how good life on earth can be, at times. What grief two people can give to one another!… — 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
Without love, most of life remains concealed. Nothing is as fascinating as love, unfortunately. — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions. — 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
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 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 Image
I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly. — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed. — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
![“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 don't know what that means. Does that mean the taxi driver leaves his wife or doesn't leave his wife? I think it has a happy ending.” quote by Hanif Kureishi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/434/hanif-kureishi-3233_crafts_harvey-weinstein-didn-t-want-to-release_17929.jpg)
