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Hanif Kureishi has 49 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not…
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All the same, my depression and self-hatred, my desire to mutilate myself with broken bottles, my numbness and crying fits, my inability…
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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…
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Dear God, teach me to be careless.
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Children, who have yet to learn our ways, are notoriously promiscuous in their affection. They’ll sit on anyone’s knee.
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Anna Karenina is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. Its gossip,…
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If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.
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Secrets are my currency: I deal in them for a living. The secrets of desire, of what people really want, and of…
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England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines.
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Being in love means being at the mercy of someone's childhood.
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And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language.
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Harvey [Weinstein] didn't want to release [MY SON THE FANATIC]; he held it for two years because he wanted a happy ending,…
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Sometimes Lennon needed McCartney and sometimes Simon needed Garfunkel. You'd go mad doing everything on your own.
— Jake Bugg
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If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.
— Lord Byron
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A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him,…
— Anthony the Great
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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually…
— G I Gurdjieff
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I have a feeling I shall go mad. I cannot go on longer in these terrible times. I shan't recover this time.…
— Virginia Woolf
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Nothing is important, so people, realising that, should get on with their lives, go mad, take their clothes off, jump in the…
— Steven Morrissey
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There is absolutely no point in sitting down to write a book unless you feel that you must write that book, or…
— Robertson Davies
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If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not…
— Lord Byron
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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
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And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.
— John Fowles
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I have a plan-to go mad.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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By means of our myths and legends we maintain a sense of what we are worth and who we are. Without them…
— Michael Moorcock
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