"Anna Karenina is just a story about a……" — Hanif Kureishi
"Anna Karenina is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. Its gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, its the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children."
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49 Quotes by Hanif Kureishi
Hanif Kureishi has 49 quotes on this site.
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Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work,…
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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,…
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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…
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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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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,…
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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,…
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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…
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I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.
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Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but…
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Stop saying athletes do it for the love of the game. They do it for the love of their 32-room…
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The notion that Anna would want something done "now" and not "shortly" is accurate.
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My daughter, Anna, is almost 15, and my son, Ben, is almost 10.
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But I want to pay tribute to Anna Lee Woodruff, an extraordinary, selfless woman and beautiful grandmother who in her…
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Women like Pamela Harriman and Patricia Duff are basically Anna Nicole Smith from the waist down. Let's just call it…
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Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.
— Alexander Pope
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The women went berserk, to the accompaniment of 'When a Man Loves a Woman.' It was all bass and drums;…
— Sue Margolis
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Throughout my reading life, I've enjoyed many memorable meals-if only fictionally. The oysters at dinner near the beginning of Anna…
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So rich people could go slumming? Come on, give me a break [it’s a] masturbatory fantasy for Anna Wintour and…
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