I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly. — Hanif Kureishi Be good Copy Share Image
What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed. — Hanif Kureishi Harmed Copy Share Image
“How utterly our past suffuses us. We live in all our days at once.” — Hanif Kureishi Time Copy Share Image
Please remove your watch,' he said. 'In my domain time isn't a factor. — Hanif Kureishi Domain Copy Share Image
“Someone to whom jokes are never told soon contracts enthusiasm deficiency.” — Hanif Kureishi Comedy Copy Share Image
“I don’t like being left for long struggling with my dangerous self.” — Hanif Kureishi Self Copy Share Image
“So badly did he not want to fuck it up, he could only fuck it up.” — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
“Transgression affirms the very rules it intends to flout. Nothing supports the norm like deviation.” — Hanif Kureishi Deviation Copy Share Image
“Everything has become very conventional. You're either in or you're out. I'm with the out- with the weird, the impossible, the victimised… — Hanif Kureishi Conventional 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… — Hanif Kureishi Toga 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 Death Copy Share Image
“I’m using Mao as my inspiration. “Cast away illusions. Prepare for struggle.” I’m back in business, baby. You don’t know you’re stuck… — Hanif Kureishi Business Copy Share Image
Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not… — Hanif Kureishi Bloody Copy Share Image
...I love 'yes.' It's practically the most interesting word of all, don't you think?" Like a hinge opening a door outward. Yes,… — Hanif Kureishi Doors Copy Share Image
My guess is that she is uncomfortable in such an intransigent world but is unable to live accordingly to her own desire. — Hanif Kureishi Desire Copy Share Image
“As a Newbody, however, I began to like the pornographic circus of rough sex; the stuff that resembled some of the modern… — Hanif Kureishi Modern dance 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,… — Hanif Kureishi Crafts Copy Share Image
“It was clear that Eleanor had been to bed with a large and random collection of people, but when I suggested she… — Hanif Kureishi Insulting Copy Share Image
“This was the English passion, not for self-improvement or culture or wit, but for DIY, Do It Yourself, for bigger and better… — Hanif Kureishi Bigger and better 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… — Hanif Kureishi Ignorance Copy Share Image
“You see, I have come to believe in self-help, individual initiative, the love of what you do, and the full development of… — Hanif Kureishi Change Copy Share Image
“And so I sat in the centre of this old city that I loved, which itself sat at the bottom of a… — Hanif Kureishi Happy Miserable Copy Share Image
“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 Black coffee Copy Share Image
“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 Feminism Copy Share Image
“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 Children Copy Share Image
If you never left anything or anyone there would be no room for the new. Naturally, to move on is an infidelity… — Hanif Kureishi Belief 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… — Hanif Kureishi Desire Copy Share Image
“Doesn’t civilisation mean keeping your temper when there is no reason for restraint?” — Hanif Kureishi Civilisation Copy Share Image
The cruellest thing you can do to Kerouac is reread him at thirty-eight. — Hanif Kureishi Eight Copy Share Image
“Women are brought up to think of others. [...] When I start to think of myself I feel sick.” — Hanif Kureishi Sick Copy Share Image
“One night, when I am old, sick, right out of semen, and don’t need things to get any worse, I hear the… — Hanif Kureishi Old 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)
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