"The vocation of each writer is to describe……" — Hanif Kureishi
"The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising."
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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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