All Hanif Kureishi Quotes
- Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job. Another Person
- All the same, my depression and self-hatred, my desire to mutilate myself with broken bottles, my numbness and crying fits, my inability to get out… All
- I can't sleep with you tonight, baby, my head's all messed up, you've no idea. It's somewhere else and it's full of voices and songs… All
- Dear God, teach me to be careless. Careless
- Children, who have yet to learn our ways, are notoriously promiscuous in their affection. They’ll sit on anyone’s knee. Affection
- Anna Karenina is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. Its gossip, rubbish - on… Anna
- If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses. Arrangements
- Secrets are my currency: I deal in them for a living. The secrets of desire, of what people really want, and of what they fear… Bear
- England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines. Authoritarian
- Being in love means being at the mercy of someone's childhood. Childhood
- And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language. Darkness
- Harvey [Weinstein] didn't want to release [MY SON THE FANATIC]; he held it for two years because he wanted a happy ending, although I don't… Crafts
- I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding. Determined
- I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better… Better
- 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. Always Writing
- I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida. Derrida
- I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly. Any
- If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of getting out of… Analyst
- You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire. Beating
- It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where… Breakthrough
- My father was a civil servant, so having a regular job, being respectable is a big deal for me. Respectable in the sense that I… Big
- Please remove your watch,' he said. 'In my domain time isn't a factor. Domain
- At the same time, you have to find the right distance between people. Too close, and they overwhelm you, too far and they abandon you.… Abandon
- Without love, most of life remains concealed. Nothing is as fascinating as love, unfortunately. Concealed
- Why do people who are good at families have to be smug and assume it is the only way to live. … Why can’t they… Assume