"Dear God, teach me to be careless." — Hanif Kureishi
"Dear God, teach me to be careless."
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Hanif Kureishi
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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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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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I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.
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More Careless Quotes
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Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself…
— Johann Arndt
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The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
— Irving Babbitt
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Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband…
— Honore de Balzac
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That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first…
— Robert Browning
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The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
— A. R. Ammons
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
— Ben Jonson
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Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy…
— Horace
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A lean cheek, - a blue eye, and sunken, - an unquestionable spirit, - a beard neglected:- Then your hose…
— William Shakespeare
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If it were given to a man to see virtue's reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect,…
— John of the Cross
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Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Why don't we pay more attention to who our farmers are? We would never be as careless choosing an auto…
— Michael Pollan
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