“Women are brought up to think of others. [...] When I start to think of myself I feel sick.” — Hanif Kureishi Sick Copy Share Image
Being in love means being at the mercy of someone's childhood. — Hanif Kureishi Being in love 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 Badly Copy Share Image
“Yes, Eleanor loathed herself and yet required praise, which she then never believed.” — Hanif Kureishi Heart Copy Share Image
“Doesn’t civilisation mean keeping your temper when there is no reason for restraint?” — Hanif Kureishi Civilisation Copy Share Image
How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs. — Hanif Kureishi Belief Copy Share Image
“YOU HAVE TO FIND THE RIGHT DISTANCE BETWEEN PEOPLE. TOO CLOSE, AND THEY OVERWHELM YOU, TOO FAR AND THEY ABANDON YOU.” — Hanif Kureishi Abandon Copy Share Image
Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be… — Hanif Kureishi Acquaintance Copy Share Image
If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses. — Hanif Kureishi Arrangements Copy Share Image
I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida. — Hanif Kureishi Derrida 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.… — Hanif Kureishi Ends Copy Share Image
“NIkad se nisam zamajavao nacelima vernosti ili okovima tradicionalnog. Cestitost je patolosko nasilje a dobrota prepreka.” — Hanif Kureishi Toga 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
I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say… — Hanif Kureishi Kind Copy Share Image
“The city blew the windows of my brain wide open. But being in a place so bright, fast and brilliant made you… — Hanif Kureishi Cities Copy Share Image
“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 Change Copy Share Image
“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 Vomit Blood 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
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 Bed Copy Share Image
Watching Jamila sometimes made me think the world was divided into three sorts of people: those who knew what they wanted to… — Hanif Kureishi Born Copy Share Image
“I know love is dark work; you have to get your hands dirty. If you hold back, nothing interesting happens. At the… — Hanif Kureishi Distance Copy Share Image
“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 Contemplate Copy Share Image
The cruellest thing you can do to Kerouac is reread him at thirty-eight. — Hanif Kureishi Eight Copy Share Image
“Desire makes me laugh because it makes fools of us all. Still, rather a fool than a fascist.” — Hanif Kureishi Desire Copy Share Image
“The mad were put in asylums, but the sane are worse off in their offices.” — Hanif Kureishi Asylums Copy Share Image
And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language. — Hanif Kureishi Be kind Copy Share Image
What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed. — Hanif Kureishi Harmed Copy Share Image
“Someone to whom jokes are never told soon contracts enthusiasm deficiency.” — Hanif Kureishi Comedy Copy Share Image
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