Hanif Kureishi Quotes

• Being in love means being at the mercy of someone's childhood.

  Hanif Kureishi

  Mean, Being In Love, Childhood

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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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  Want Something, Excuse, Enough

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• How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.

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  Important, Belief, Illusion

  Hanif Kureishi (2010). “Intimacy”, p.83, Faber & Faber

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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, materialistic philistines.

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  Running, Insulting, Racist

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• And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language.

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  Silence, Darkness, Be Kind

  Hanif Kureishi (2002). “Intimacy and Midnight All Day: A Novel and Stories”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• These days everyone was insisting on their identity, coming out as a man, woman, gay, black, Jew - brandishing whichever features they could claim, as if without a tag they wouldn’t be human.

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  Gay, Hombres, Negro

  Hanif Kureishi (2009). “The Black Album”, p.66, Faber & Faber

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• Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.

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  Understanding, Different, Dimensions

  Hanif Kureishi (2016). “Love in a Blue Time”, p.122, Faber & Faber

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• I don't want to be loved. I want to be desired. Love is safety, but desire is foul.

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  Love Is, Safety, Desire

  Hanif Kureishi (2009). “Something to Tell You: A Novel”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• La vocación de cada escritor es describir el mundo tal como lo ve; todo lo que no sea eso es publicidad.

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  World, Advertising, Vocation

  Hanif Kureishi (2014). “The Word and the Bomb”, p.5, Faber & Faber

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• Watching Jamila sometimes made me think the world was divided into three sorts of people: those who knew what they wanted to do; those (the unhappiest) who never knew what their purpose in life was; and those who found out later on. I was in the last category, I reckoned, which didn't stop me wishing I'd been born into the first.

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  Pensamiento, Gente, Deseo

  Hanif Kureishi (2009). “The Buddha of Suburbia”, p.90, Faber & Faber

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• I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.

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  Reality, Looks, Want

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• At the same time, you have to find the right distance between people. Too close, and they overwhelm you, too far and they abandon you. How to hold them in the right relation?

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  Distance, People, Relation

  Hanif Kureishi (2002). “Intimacy and Midnight All Day: A Novel and Stories”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• Supongo que escribir es una especie de terapia en el sentido de que hay cosas que necesitas decir y las dices, y mejor fuera que dentro.

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  Writing, Needs, Kind

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• Nothing can be repaired or advanced but only accepted

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  Aceptado

  Hanif Kureishi (2016). “Love in a Blue Time”, p.172, Faber & Faber

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• What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed.

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  People, Quality, Innocence

  Hanif Kureishi (2010). “Intimacy”, p.9, Faber & Faber

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• Sin amor, la mayor parte de la vida permanece oculta. Nada es tan fascinante como el amor, por desgracia.

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  Remains, Without Love, Concealed

  Hanif Kureishi (2002). “Intimacy and Midnight All Day: A Novel and Stories”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• Fundamentalism is dictatorship of the mind

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  Mind, Dictatorship, Fundamentalism

  Hanif Kureishi (2009). “The Black Album with My Son the Fanatic: A Novel and a Short Story”, p.308, Simon and Schuster

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• Harvey [Weinstein] no quería estrenar [MI HIJO EL FANÁTICO]; la retuvo dos años porque quería un final feliz, aunque no sé qué significa eso. ¿Significa que el taxista deja a su mujer o que no la deja? Creo que tiene un final feliz.

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  Medio, Hijo, Pensamiento

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• You don't stop loving someone just because you hate them.

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  Hate, Loving Someone, Intimacy

  Hanif Kureishi (2002). “Intimacy and Midnight All Day: A Novel and Stories”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• Dear God, teach me to be careless.

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  Dear God, Teach, Dear

  Hanif Kureishi (2002). “Intimacy and Midnight All Day: A Novel and Stories”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history.

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  Hurt, Future, History

  Hanif Kureishi (2002). “Intimacy and Midnight All Day: A Novel and Stories”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• ...I love 'yes.' It's practically the most interesting word of all, don't you think?" Like a hinge opening a door outward. Yes, yes, yes.

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  Thinking, Doors, Interesting

  Hanif Kureishi (2009). “The Black Album with My Son the Fanatic: A Novel and a Short Story”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• At the deepest level people are madder than they want to believe. You will find that they fear being eaten, and are alarmed by their desire to devour others.

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  Creer, Gente, Deseo

  Hanif Kureishi (2009). “Something to Tell You: A Novel”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?

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  Real, Philosophical, Understanding

  "When you're writing, you look for conflict" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2003.

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• Please remove your watch,' he said. 'In my domain time isn't a factor.

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  Watches, Domain, Said

  Hanif Kureishi (2009). “The Buddha of Suburbia”, p.14, Faber & Faber

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