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He died at the wrong time, when there was much to be clarified and established. They hadn't even started to be grown-ups together. There was this piece of heaven, this little girl he'd carried around the shop on his shoulders; and then one day she was gone, replaced by a foreigner, an uncooperative woman he didn't know how to speak to. Being so confused, so weak, so in love, he chose strength and drove her away from himself. The last years ..
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father-daughter
parents
regret
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Hanif Kureishi |
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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."
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Hanif Kureishi |
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0aa1984
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Behind every vocation there is a fetish.
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Hanif Kureishi |
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f07472d
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I admired him more than anyone but I didn't wish him well. It was that I preferred him to me and wanted to be him. I coveted his talents, face, style. I wanted to wake up with them all transferred to me.
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jealousy
love
envy
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Hanif Kureishi |
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53f9cfb
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Now, watching her sleep, and closing his eyes, he felt, in this particular intimacy - stowed beneath her duvet - that he was intruding. At the same time, he knew, settling down, you couldn't dislike anyone you'd seen sleep
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Hanif Kureishi |
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ff34406
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This was the English passion, not for self-improvement or culture or wit, but for DIY, Do It Yourself, for bigger and better houses with more mod cons, the painstaking accumulation of comfort and, with it, status - the concrete display of earned cash.
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Hanif Kureishi |
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8ac25c9
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'Hsst blrGb@ fy 'n tlqy lshrT@ lqbD `ly w twjh ly thm@ Hyz@ `ql l ymknny ltHkm fyh.
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Hanif Kureishi |
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a9c02d5
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The girl had many virtues: money, a car--a gold-coloured Capri, in which she played the latest funk--a big house and a rich father. When Valentin asked, 'What does your boyfriend do?' she replied, 'But I don't have one, really.
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Hanif Kureishi |
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1714284
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Everything has become very conventional. You're either in or you're out. I'm with the out- with the weird, the impossible, the victimised and the broken. It's the only place to be.
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Hanif Kureishi |
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3a9c8ac
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Sometimes I felt the whole world was converging on this little room. And as I became more intoxicated and frustrated I'd throw open the bedroom window as the dawn came up, and look across the gardens, lawns, greenhouses, sheds and curtained windows. I wanted my life to begin now, at this instant, just when I was ready for it.
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Hanif Kureishi |
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d03a09c
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The interesting people you wanted to be with - their minds were unusual, you saw things freshly with them and all was not deadness and repetition.
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Hanif Kureishi |
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ttsl lmdh ytHmWl lns kl dhlk, l'nhm `tdw `l~ dhlk. w lm y`d bmknhm 'n yrw mkny@ 'n tkwn l'shy mkhtlf@. m yfjy'ny lys lkm lkthyr ldhy yTlbh lns, bl lqlyl ldhy yTlbwnh.
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Hanif Kureishi |
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c2eaf23
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I didn't want to be educated. It wasn't the right time of my life for concentration, it really wasn't. The spirit of the age among the people I knew manifested itself as general drift and idleness. We didn't want money. What for? We could get by, living off parents, friends or the State And if we were going to be bored, and we were usually bored, rarely being self-motivated, we could at least be bored on our own terms, lying smashed on matt..
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youth
work
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Hanif Kureishi |
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0a4ab5b
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Surely you've noticed that most people live without love, spending their lives trying to find people they're not turned on by.
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Hanif Kureishi |
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7c68c05
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The best stories are the open ones, those you don't quite understand.
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Hanif Kureishi |
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76b82bd
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Truth telling, therefore, has to be an ultimate value, until it clashes with another ultimate value, pleasure, at which point, to state the obvious, there is conflict.
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Hanif Kureishi |
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089c33f
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Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy.
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Hanif Kureishi |
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fb7d856
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If you want to know a man, see how he is in love.
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Hanif Kureishi |
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2af9858
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Of course, when you love the unwell, you constantly have to ask yourself: Do I love her, or her illness? Am I her lover or her healer?
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Hanif Kureishi |
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490c43e
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The world is made from our imagination ; our eyes enliven it , as our hands give it shape.Wanting makes it thrive; meaning is what you put in , not what you extract. you can only see what you are inclined to see, and no more. We have to make the new.
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Hanif Kureishi |
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d648b67
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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.
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Hanif Kureishi |
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3d86034
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Born for disappointment, she only wanted what I couldn't give.
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Hanif Kureishi |
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679ee02
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The city blew the windows of my brain wide open. But being in a place so bright, fast and brilliant made you vertiginous with possibility: it didn't necessarily help you grasp those possibilities. I still had no idea what I was going to do. I felt directionless and lost in the crowd. I couldn't yet see how the city worked, but I began to find out.
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potential
london
city
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Hanif Kureishi |
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34cf457
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As a Newbody, however, I began to like the pornographic circus of rough sex; the stuff that resembled some of the modern dance I had seen, animalistic, without talk. I begged to be turned into meat, held down, tied, blindfolded, slapped, pulled and strangled, entirely merged in the physical, all my swirling selves sucked into orgasm.
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Hanif Kureishi |
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390bf92
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You know, when you end a relationship and say you fell out of love, you actually mean you were never really in love. The past is a river, not a statue.
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Hanif Kureishi |
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5727e04
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Children, who have yet to learn our ways, are notoriously promiscuous in their affection. They'll sit on anyone's knee.
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Hanif Kureishi |
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2e6a9b4
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You see, I have come to believe in self-help, individual initiative, the love of what you do, and the full development of all individuals. I am constantly disappointed by how little we expect of ourselves and of the world.
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perseverance
initiative
society
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Hanif Kureishi |
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028c8bf
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The truth is a tattoo on your forehead. You can't see it yourself. I am your mirror.
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Hanif Kureishi |
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f49f23d
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I am dust and my story ends here.
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story
ends
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Hanif Kureishi |
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3741524
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n l'shkhS ldhyn y`yshwn Hy@ thny@, kl'shkhS ldhyn ytzwjwn llmr@ lthny@, y'khdhwn kl m yqwmwn bh `d@ `l~ mHml ljd `l~ nHw 'kbr mm knw yf`lwnh mn qbl. dh"ybdw lhm 'n kl lHZ@ hy 'thmn mn llHZ@ lty sbqth"
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Hanif Kureishi |
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4aca1ba
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Mutual transformation is rare, as good things are. In my view, a person should live as they wish until they find someone they want to be faithful to. After all, as you say, one can't suck oneself off.
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Hanif Kureishi |
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5cd976f
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NASSER: In this damn country that we hate and love, you can get anything you want. It's all spread out and availble. That's why I believe in England. You just have to know how to squeeze the tits of the system.
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tits
system
immigrant
england
fascism
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Hanif Kureishi |
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28bcad1
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I can't quite count the ways in which we hurt one another. It was the means by which we tried to help one another--me, turning her into a patient, her, turning me into a dull authority--which were as bad as, if not worse, than our actual abuses.
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Hanif Kureishi |
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13b6216
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I know you so well, and you'll feel guilty, simplifying everything, putting the emphasis here or there according to your interest.
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Hanif Kureishi |
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965ce27
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It was clear that Eleanor had been to bed with a large and random collection of people, but when I suggested she go to bed with me, she said, 'I don't think we should, just at the moment, do you?' As a man I found this pretty fucking insulting.
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Hanif Kureishi |
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d328fbe
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The questions had become: What can we forgive in others? How far do they have to go before we lose faith in them?
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Hanif Kureishi |
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ec612dd
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There's a lot of degradation in sex, isn't there?" "When it's done right."
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sex
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Hanif Kureishi |
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e256ac4
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People go their whole lives wanting to be admired for their hidden qualities.
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people
qualities
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Hanif Kureishi |
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08e339d
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Most people don't know how to maximise their pleasure, they sexualise their pain. Surely you've noticed that most people live without love, spending their lives trying to find people they're not turned on by.
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Hanif Kureishi |
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bd20e52
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l tkfH tHt 'y Zrf kn . lkfH jhl ! nh Hkm@ fTry@ . tb` msh`rk fqT w f`l mtHbh. yrd tyd by's : dh tb`t msh`ry ll`yn@ swf yfsd kl shy
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Hanif Kureishi |
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d2ff2ee
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The "master" would always be the one who could wait without anxiety;"
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Hanif Kureishi |
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39f7a93
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I was falling in love with myself. Not that beauty, or life itself, means much if you're in a room on your own. Heaven is other people.
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Hanif Kureishi |
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dc741fa
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It's frustration which makes creativity possible.
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frustration
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Hanif Kureishi |
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ea0a113
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How many artists have created while drunk, high on laudanum, opium, chloral or amphetamines? What have antidepressants ever done for culture?
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artists
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