"Security and safety were the reward of dullness." — Hanif Kureishi

"Security and safety were the reward of dullness."

— 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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More Dullness Quotes

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Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary… — Walter Bagehot
The difference between an interesting and a tedious teacher consists in little more than the inventiveness by which the one… — William James
Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship… — Philip Yancey
Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that… — George Santayana
But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of… — Francis Bacon
The devil's name is dullness. — Robert E. Lee
I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an… — George Eliot
In life courtesy and self-possession, and in the arts style, are the sensible impressions of the free mind, for both… — William Butler Yeats
Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The… — Howard Zinn
Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness. — Edith Sitwell
The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from… — Burl Ives
A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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