“YOU HAVE TO FIND THE RIGHT DISTANCE BETWEEN PEOPLE. TOO CLOSE, AND THEY OVERWHELM YOU, TOO FAR AND THEY ABANDON YOU.” — Hanif Kureishi Too far 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
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
“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 Copy Share Image
“Transgression affirms the very rules it intends to flout. Nothing supports the norm like deviation.” — Hanif Kureishi Transgression 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
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
“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
“So badly did he not want to fuck it up, he could only fuck it up.” — Hanif Kureishi 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
“How utterly our past suffuses us. We live in all our days at once.” — Hanif Kureishi Time 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
The cruellest thing you can do to Kerouac is reread him at thirty-eight. — Hanif Kureishi Eight 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
“If jealousy was the vindaloo of love, I'd imagined her tongue burning, and such a fire forcing her to spill her truth.” — Hanif Kureishi Burning 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
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 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
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
Please remove your watch,' he said. 'In my domain time isn't a factor. — Hanif Kureishi Domain 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
“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
