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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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Real gs move in silence like lasagna.
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Real dudes move in silence...like a mute drivin a new hybrid.
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All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass…
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In architecture, space was a material to be shaped, even created. For these men, the material was silence. Silence like water in…
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Ideas make their way in silence like the waters that, altering behind the rocks of the Alps, loosen then from the mountains…
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And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language.
— Hanif Kureishi
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Music falls on the silence like a sense / A passion that we feel, not understand.
— Wallace Stevens
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It was as if they had leapt over the arduous cavalry of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love.…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The library smells like old books — a thousand leather doorways into other worlds. I hear silence, like the mind of God.…
— Laura Whitcomb
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I love your silences, they are like mine. You are the only being before whom I am not distressed by my own…
— Anais Nin
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It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand silence,…
— Anthony Bourdain
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In Kazahkstan, you would drive five hours outside the city to where roads sort of stop being roads, and it was just…
— Benedict Wong
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