Best Hanif Kureishi Quotes
- Love cannot be measured by its duration... Duration
- Fundamentalism is dictatorship of the mind Dictatorship
- ...I love 'yes.' It's practically the most interesting word of all, don't you think?" Like a hinge opening a door outward. Yes, yes, yes. All
- The cruellest thing you can do to Kerouac is reread him at thirty-eight. Cruellest
- At the deepest level people are madder than they want to believe. You will find that they fear being eaten, and are alarmed by their… Alarmed
- I don't want to be loved. I want to be desired. Love is safety, but desire is foul. Desire
- My pleasures disappeared with my vices. Disappeared
- Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with… Acquaintance
- Security and safety were the reward of dullness. Dullness
- Like you, she will have been with other people, but I've got a feeling there's something between you. Been
- But you're beautiful, and the beautiful should be given whatever they want." "Hey, what about the ugly ones?" "The ugly ones." She poked her tongue… Beautiful
- No amount of promises can guarantee love Amount
- Nothing can be repaired or advanced but only accepted Accepted
- The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising. Advertising
- One would hope, as well that intimacy would leave more of a mark, that more of it would remain. But it doesn’t. You just end… Doesn
- These days everyone was insisting on their identity, coming out as a man, woman, gay, black, Jew - brandishing whichever features they could claim, as… Black
- But in love each moment is magnified, and every gesture, word and syllable is examined like a speech by the President. Each
- How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs. Belief
- Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions. Backwards
- If you never left anything or anyone there would be no room for the new. Naturally, to move on is an infidelity -- to others,… Act
- Almost certainly I will not tell her my intentions this evening or tonight. I will put it off. Why? Because words are actions and they… Action
- What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed. Expect
- My guess is that she is uncomfortable in such an intransigent world but is unable to live accordingly to her own desire. Accordingly
- You don't stop loving someone just because you hate them. Hate