"England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place……" — Hanif Kureishi
"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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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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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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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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And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all…
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The parent-child relationship in the home usually reflects the objective cultural conditions of the surrounding social structure. If the conditions…
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A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population…
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Public schools are government-established, politician- and bureaucrat-controlled, fully politicized, taxpayer-supported, authoritarian socialist institutions. In fact, the public-school system is one…
— Unknown Author
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A state does not simply fall apart as a result of depression... [Weimar Germany] was not destroyed by economic depression…
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Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that…
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Whether the teacher is authoritarian, undisciplined, competent, incompetent, serious, irresponsible, involved, a lover of people and of life, cold, angry…
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RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and…
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Parents who discipline their child by discussing the consequences of their actions produce children who have better moral development ,…
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I had some things I had to fix. It took me 14 years to do it. But it was never…
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But the true threats to stability and peace are these nations that are not very transparent, that hide behind the-that…
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