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. Hanif Kureishi More Quotes by Hanif Kureishi More Quotes From Hanif Kureishi 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. Hanif Kureishi futurehurthistory Love cannot be measured by its duration. Hanif Kureishi duration My father was a civil servant, so having a regular job, being respectable is a big deal for me. Respectable in the sense that I support my family. That's what I mean by respectability. Hanif Kureishi jobsmeanfather 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. Hanif Kureishi desirebelievepeople I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly. Hanif Kureishi be-goodgoodnessdesire The cruellest thing you can do to Kerouac is reread him at thirty-eight. Hanif Kureishi thirty-eightthirtyeight I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding. Hanif Kureishi wantrealitylooks 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. Hanif Kureishi obsessivecrazywriting I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida. Hanif Kureishi philosophicalpsychologypeople You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire. Hanif Kureishi beating-yourself-upyesterdaydesire If jealousy was the vindaloo of love, I'd imagined her tongue burning, and such a fire forcing her to spill her truth. Hanif Kureishi burningtonguefire 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. Hanif Kureishi falling-in-lovehusbandchildren Children, who have yet to learn our ways, are notoriously promiscuous in their affection. They’ll sit on anyone’s knee. Hanif Kureishi kneeschildrenway ...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. Hanif Kureishi doorsinterestingthinking Like you, she will have been with other people, but I've got a feeling there's something between you. Hanif Kureishi like-youfeelingspeople 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. Hanif Kureishi uglyheybeautiful No amount of promises can guarantee love Hanif Kureishi amountguaranteespromise Nothing can be repaired or advanced but only accepted Hanif Kureishi accepted But in love each moment is magnified, and every gesture, word and syllable is examined like a speech by the President. Hanif Kureishi gesturesspeechpresident 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. Hanif Kureishi eveningtonightaction
