“Yes, Eleanor loathed herself and yet required praise, which she then never believed.” — Hanif Kureishi Narcissism Copy Share Image
Without love, most of life remains concealed. Nothing is as fascinating as love, unfortunately. — Hanif Kureishi Life 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
“London seemed like a house with five thousand rooms, all different; the kick was to work out how they connected, and eventually… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
At the same time, you have to find the right distance between people. Too close, and they overwhelm you, too far and… — Hanif Kureishi Abandon 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
“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
“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
“The mad were put in asylums, but the sane are worse off in their offices.” — Hanif Kureishi Asylums 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
“The truth is,everything we really desire is either forbidden,immoral or unhealthy, and if you're lucky, all three at once.” — Hanif Kureishi Truth Copy Share Image
“NIkad se nisam zamajavao nacelima vernosti ili okovima tradicionalnog. Cestitost je patolosko nasilje a dobrota prepreka.” — Hanif Kureishi 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
“I admired him more than anyone but I didn't wish him well. It was that I preferred him to me and wanted… — Hanif Kureishi Admiration Copy Share Image
At the deepest level people are madder than they want to believe. You will find that they fear being eaten, and are… — Hanif Kureishi Believe 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 Copy Share Image
The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising. — Hanif Kureishi Advertising Copy Share Image
England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines. — Hanif Kureishi England Copy Share Image
