List of Hanif Kureishi Quotes

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Hanif Kureishi
Total Quotes 53
For mum, life was fundamentally hell. you went blind, you got raped, people forgot your birthday, nixon got elected, your husband fled with a blonde from beckenham, and then you got old, you couldn't walk and you died.
Husband People Blonde
Children, who have yet to learn our ways, are notoriously promiscuous in their affection. they’ll sit on anyone’s knee.
Children Knees Way
Like you, she will have been with other people, but i've got a feeling there's something between you.
People Feelings Like You
No amount of promises can guarantee love
Promise Guarantees Amount
One would hope, as well that intimacy would leave more of a mark, that more of it would remain. but it doesn’t. you just end up thinking, who is this person?
Thinking Intimacy Ends
My guess is that she is uncomfortable in such an intransigent world but is unable to live accordingly to her own desire.
Desire World Uncomfortable
I'm always writing. i'm an obsessive. it's not because i'm a disciplined person. it's because i'm crazy about it.
Crazy Writing Obsessive
If jealousy was the vindaloo of love, i'd imagined her tongue burning, and such a fire forcing her to spill her truth.
Fire Burning Tongue
All the same, my depression and self-hatred, my desire to mutilate myself with broken bottles, my numbness and crying fits, my inability to get out of bed for days and days, the feeling of the world moving in to crush me, went on and on. but i knew i wouldn't go mad, even if that release, that letting-go, was a freedom i desired. i was waiting for myself to heal.
Depression Crush Letting Go
But in love each moment is magnified, and every gesture, word and syllable is examined like a speech by the president.
President Gestures Speech
Anna karenina is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. its gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, its the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.
Falling In Love Children Husband
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 full of voices and songs and bad things.
Depression Song Baby
  • Born: December 5, 1954
  • Occupation: Playwright
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