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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. That's what I mean by respectability.
— Hanif Kureishi
Tags: job, father, me, family

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I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida.
— Hanif Kureishi
Tags: interested, psychology, like, people
If you never left anything or anyone there would be no room for the new. Naturally, to move on is an infidelity -- to others, to the past, to old notions of oneself. Perhaps every day should contain at least one essential infidelity or necessary betrayal. It would be an optimistic, hopeful act, guaranteeing belief in the future -- a declaration that things can be not only different but better.
— Hanif Kureishi Intimacy
Tags: relationships
You don't stop loving someone just because you hate them.
— Hanif Kureishi Intimacy
Tags: relationships, love, intimacy, hate, hanif-kureishi
The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.
— Hanif Kureishi The Word and the Bomb
Tags: writing
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