Quotes by Hanif Kureishi

Hanif Kureishi

…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.

Doors

Interesting

Thinking

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.

Crush

Depression

Letting Go

Almost certainly I will not tell her my intentions this evening or tonight. I will put it off. Why? Because words are actions and they make things happen. Once they are out you cannot put them back.

Action

Evening

Tonight

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

Be Kind

Darkness

Silence

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.

Children

Falling In Love

Husband

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.

Believe

Desire

People

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?

Distance

People

Relation

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

Being In Love

Childhood

Mean

But in love each moment is magnified, and every gesture, word and syllable is examined like a speech by the President.

Gestures

President

Speech

But you’re beautiful, and the beautiful should be given whatever they want.” “Hey, what about the ugly ones?” “The ugly ones.” She poked her tongue out. “It’s their fault if their ugly. They’re to be blamed, not pitied.

Beautiful

Hey

Ugly

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Accepted

Action

Advertising

Amount

Analysts

Assuming

Baby

Be Good

Be Kind

Beating Yourself Up

Beautiful

Being In Love

Belief

Believe

Betrayal

Black

Blonde

Burning

Chance

Childhood

Children

Concealed

Crazy

Crush

Darkness

Dear

Dear God

Depression

Desire

Dictatorship

Different

Dimensions

Distance

Domain

Doors

Dullness

Duration

Eight

Ends

Enough

Evening

Excuse

Falling In Love

Father

Feelings

Fire

Fundamentalism

Future

Gay

Generosity

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Quotes by Hanif Kureishi

Hanif Kureishi

…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.

Almost certainly I will not tell her my intentions this evening or tonight. I will put it off. Why? Because words are actions and they make things happen. Once they are out you cannot put them back.

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

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.

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.

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?

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

But in love each moment is magnified, and every gesture, word and syllable is examined like a speech by the President.

But you’re beautiful, and the beautiful should be given whatever they want.” “Hey, what about the ugly ones?” “The ugly ones.” She poked her tongue out. “It’s their fault if their ugly. They’re to be blamed, not pitied.

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