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Hanif Kureishi Biography

Hanif Kureishi, CBE (born 5 December 1954) is a British playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker and novelist of Pakistani and English descent. In 2008, The Times included Kureishi in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".

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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.

Born, Divided, People, Thinking, Unhappiest, Wish

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?

Ends, Hope, Intimacy, Mark, Thinking

England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place. . . an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines.

Authoritarian, Insulting, Intolerant, Racist, Run, Running

The cruellest thing you can do to Kerouac is reread him at thirty-eight.

Cruellest, Eight, Kerouac, Reread, Thirty, Thirty Eight

No amount of promises can guarantee love

Amount, Guarantee, Guarantees, Love, Promise, Promises

Security and safety were the reward of dullness.

Dullness, Rewards, Safety, Security

Children, who have yet to learn our ways, are notoriously promiscuous in their affection. They’ll sit on anyone’s knee.

Affection, Children, Knee, Knees, Sit, Way

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?

Breakthroughs, Philosophical, Real, Terms, Understanding

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

Being In Love, Childhood, Love, Mean, Mercy

Harvey [Weinstein] didn't want to release [MY SON THE FANATIC]; he held it for two years because he wanted a happy ending, although I don't know what that means. Does that mean the taxi driver leaves his wife or doesn't leave his wife? I think it has a happy ending.

Although, Harvey, Know, Mean, Son, Thinking

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

Hate, Intimacy, Loving, Loving Someone, Stop

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.

Family, Father, Jobs, Mean, Respectable, Support

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, Freedom, Letting Go, Waiting, World

Like you, she will have been with other people, but I've got a feeling there's something between you.

Feeling, Feelings, Like, Like You, People

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

Belief, Beliefs, Disturbing, Illusion, Important

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?

Close, Distance, People, Relation, Same

Nothing can be repaired or advanced but only accepted

Accepted, Advanced, Nothing, Repaired

Fundamentalism is dictatorship of the mind

Dictatorship, Fundamentalism, Mind

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.

Baby, Depression, Idea, Messed, Song, Voices

Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.

Digesting, Falling, Falling In Love, Jobs, Relationship, Work

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