“Erosova masinerija sastavlja i rastavlja, obnavlja u coveku zudnju za zivotom.” — Hanif Kureishi Toga 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
“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 want to be loved. I want to be desired. Love is safety, but desire is foul. — Hanif Kureishi Desire Copy Share Image
Without love, most of life remains concealed. Nothing is as fascinating as love, unfortunately. — Hanif Kureishi Life 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 Fingernails Copy Share Image
Children, who have yet to learn our ways, are notoriously promiscuous in their affection. They’ll sit on anyone’s knee. — Hanif Kureishi Affection Copy Share Image
“The truth is,everything we really desire is either forbidden,immoral or unhealthy, and if you're lucky, all three at once.” — Hanif Kureishi Immoral Copy Share Image
“Desire, like the dead or an unpleasant meal, would keep returning--it was ultimately indigestible.” — Hanif Kureishi Desire 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
My father was a civil servant, so having a regular job, being respectable is a big deal for me. Respectable in the… — Hanif Kureishi Big deal Copy Share Image
Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions. — Hanif Kureishi Backwards Copy Share Image
I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida. — Hanif Kureishi Derrida 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“People go their whole lives wanting to be admired for their hidden qualities.” — Hanif Kureishi Admired 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
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
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
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
“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
“NIkad se nisam zamajavao nacelima vernosti ili okovima tradicionalnog. Cestitost je patolosko nasilje a dobrota prepreka.” — Hanif Kureishi Toga 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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
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