“How utterly our past suffuses us. We live in all our days at once.” — Hanif Kureishi Time Copy Share Image
“It was easy to see that he was clever and well read, but he was also boring.” — Hanif Kureishi Books Copy Share Image
“Someone to whom jokes are never told soon contracts enthusiasm deficiency.” — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
Please remove your watch,' he said. 'In my domain time isn't a factor. — Hanif Kureishi Domain Copy Share Image
What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed. — Hanif Kureishi Innocence Copy Share Image
And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language. — Hanif Kureishi Be kind 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
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 Beating yourself up Copy Share Image
If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of… — Hanif Kureishi Analysts Copy Share Image
These days everyone was insisting on their identity, coming out as a man, woman, gay, black, Jew - brandishing whichever features they… — Hanif Kureishi Black Copy Share Image
“I could have ripped at those pages with my fingernails in order to get all of the material inside me.” — Hanif Kureishi 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’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
...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
“I liked Terry more than anyone I'd met for a long time, and we talked everyday. But he did believe the working… — Hanif Kureishi Class struggle 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 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
“For Mum, life was fundamentally hell. You went blind, you got raped, people forgot your birthday, Nixon got elected, your husband fled… — Hanif Kureishi Blind Copy Share Image
“Suddenly I shouted into the night air. 'Yes, yes, yes, it is true!" And now the world had some tension in it;… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
“One of his black girlfriends did once persuade him to go on an anti-racist demonstration; and when the National Front yelled, "Get… — Hanif Kureishi Black girl Copy Share Image
“ Unlike films, plays don't take place in the past. The fear,anxiety of the actors is happening now, in front of you.… — Hanif Kureishi Cinema 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
Secrets are my currency: I deal in them for a living. The secrets of desire, of what people really want, and of… — Hanif Kureishi Bears Copy Share Image
“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 Father 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 Education Copy Share Image
“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 Intimacy 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
“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
