"At the deepest level people are madder than……" — Hanif Kureishi
"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 desire to devour others."
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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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Anna Karenina is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband.…
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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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The traditional spokespersons for the Evangelicals, such as Chuck Colson and James Dobson, have become alarmed about this drift away…
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When I was little, my parents really only wanted me to be a scientist or a doctor; they had never…
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We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.
— Victor Hugo
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There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed…
— Peter Straub
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I sympathize the first, the direct and single-minded attack [Red Revolution]. I believe it to have been necessary and inevitable…
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I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests…
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Dangerous climate change... It's important not to be alarmist but it is very important to be alarmed
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Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue…
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The Middle East is replete with both new and old threats. One should not underestimate these threats, but not be…
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It is one thing to have sin alarmed only by convictions, and another to have it crucified by converting grace.…
— Joseph Alleine
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The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Even in these mercifully emancipated decades, many people still seem quite seriously alarmed at the prospect of sleeping away from…
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