"It seemed to me that the real philosophical……" — Hanif Kureishi
"It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?"
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49 Quotes by Hanif Kureishi
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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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