Without love, most of life remains concealed. Nothing is as fascinating as love, unfortunately. — Hanif Kureishi Life Copy Share Image
“People go their whole lives wanting to be admired for their hidden qualities.” — Hanif Kureishi Admired Copy Share Image
“Sex is like art: if you know what you’re doing, you don’t know what you’re doing.” — Hanif Kureishi Art Copy Share Image
“Erosova masinerija sastavlja i rastavlja, obnavlja u coveku zudnju za zivotom.” — Hanif Kureishi Toga Copy Share Image
I don't want to be loved. I want to be desired. Love is safety, but desire is foul. — Hanif Kureishi Desire Copy Share Image
But in love each moment is magnified, and every gesture, word and syllable is examined like a speech by the President. — Hanif Kureishi Gestures Copy Share Image
“Ako pomislim što je pakao - to je kad si sam zauvijek u sobi 101 i nemaš što čitati osim njegovih (Orwellovih) knjiga.” — Hanif Kureishi Quote Copy Share Image
“London seemed like a house with five thousand rooms, all different; the kick was to work out how they connected, and eventually… — Hanif Kureishi London Copy Share Image
“Sometimes writers like to imagine that the difficulty of becoming a writer resides in convincing others that that is what you are.… — Hanif Kureishi Convincing Copy Share Image
“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 Elvis 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 Crazy Copy Share Image
“My son, there may be a time when I explain these things to you, because there may be a time when I… — Hanif Kureishi Explain Copy Share Image
Why do people who are good at families have to be smug and assume it is the only way to live. …… — Hanif Kureishi Assuming Copy Share Image
“Act – make an event. Smash the coordinates and see where the smithereens fly. Let in the madness, and be sure to… — Hanif Kureishi Danger 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… — Hanif Kureishi Enjoy Copy Share Image
Anna Karenina is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. Its gossip,… — Hanif Kureishi Anna Copy Share Image
“However angry I was with him, however much I wanted to humiliate Terry, I suddenly saw such humanity in his eyes, and… — Hanif Kureishi Compassion Copy Share Image
It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What… — Hanif Kureishi 20th century Copy Share Image
“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 Boyfriend Copy Share Image
“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 Begin Copy Share Image
Almost certainly I will not tell her my intentions this evening or tonight. I will put it off. Why? Because words are… — Hanif Kureishi Action 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
“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 Imagination 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
“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
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 Died 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
