"Love cannot be measured by its duration..." — Hanif Kureishi
"Love cannot be measured by its duration..."
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Hanif Kureishi
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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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More Duration Quotes
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
— Honore de Balzac
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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
— Corrie Ten Boom
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For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles…
— Joseph A. Schumpeter
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The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves…
— John Playfair
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Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity.
— Samuel Johnson
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Freedom sees in religion the companion of its struggles and its triumphs, the cradle of its infancy, the divine source…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Reality is what kicks back when you kick it. This is just what physicists do with their particle accelerators. We…
— Victor J. Stenger
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This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting…
— Thomas Traherne
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Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows…
— Isaac Newton
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Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is…
— Samuel Johnson
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[Liberty] considers religion as the safeguard of morality, and morality as the best security of law and the surest pledge…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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...in the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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