These days everyone was insisting on their identity, coming out as a man, woman, gay, black, Jew - … - Hanif Kureishi

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The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once.

Hanif Kureishi

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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