"I've never had any desire to be good.……" — Hanif Kureishi

"I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly."

— Hanif Kureishi

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49 Quotes by Hanif Kureishi

Hanif Kureishi has 49 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work,…
All the same, my depression and self-hatred, my desire to mutilate myself with broken bottles, my numbness and crying fits,…
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…
Dear God, teach me to be careless.
Children, who have yet to learn our ways, are notoriously promiscuous in their affection. They’ll sit on anyone’s knee.
Anna Karenina is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband.…
If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.
Secrets are my currency: I deal in them for a living. The secrets of desire, of what people really want,…
England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded,…
Being in love means being at the mercy of someone's childhood.
And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language.
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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