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10 quotes by Hanif Kureishi

Hanif Kureishi, CBE (born 5 December 1954) is an Indian English playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker and novelist. In 2008, The Times included Kureishi in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
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'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other... →

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

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I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.

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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.

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I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida.

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If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of getting out of it faster.

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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... →

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You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.

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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.

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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.... →

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