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Inspirational Quotes by Hanif Kureishi
- If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.
- I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
- You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.
- Without love, most of life remains concealed. Nothing is as fascinating as love, unfortunately.
- Love cannot be measured by its duration...
- Fundamentalism is dictatorship of the mind
- The cruellest thing you can do to Kerouac is reread him at thirty-eight.
- My pleasures disappeared with my vices.
- Security and safety were the reward of dullness.
- Like you, she will have been with other people, but I've got a feeling there's something between you.
- No amount of promises can guarantee love
- Nothing can be repaired or advanced but only accepted
- The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.
- How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.
- What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed.
- My guess is that she is uncomfortable in such an intransigent world but is unable to live accordingly to her own desire.
- You don't stop loving someone just because you hate them.
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- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento