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Love Quotes by Hanif Kureishi
- 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.
- Anna Karenina is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. Its gossip, rubbish - on…
- 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…
- Being in love means being at the mercy of someone's childhood.
- 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
- ...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.
- The cruellest thing you can do to Kerouac is reread him at thirty-eight.
- I don't want to be loved. I want to be desired. Love is safety, but desire is foul.
- My pleasures disappeared with my vices.
- No amount of promises can guarantee love
- Nothing can be repaired or advanced but only accepted
- But in love each moment is magnified, and every gesture, word and syllable is examined like a speech by the President.
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- When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe. — Dario Argento
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- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
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