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Want Quotes by Hanif Kureishi
- If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.
- 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…
- Harvey [Weinstein] didn't want to release [MY SON THE FANATIC]; he held it for two years because he wanted a happy ending, although I don't…
- I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.
- 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…
- I don't want to be loved. I want to be desired. Love is safety, but desire is foul.
- 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…
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