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81 " Someone to whom jokes are never told soon contracts enthusiasm deficiency. "
― Hanif Kureishi , The Buddha of Suburbia
82 " If jealousy was the vindaloo of love, I'd imagined her tongue burning, and such a fire forcing her to spill her truth. "
― Hanif Kureishi , Something to Tell You
83 " One falls in love, and then learns, for the duration, that one is at the mercy of someone else’s childhood. "
― Hanif Kureishi , The Last Word
84 " Behind every vocation there is a fetish. "
― Hanif Kureishi , The Body
85 " 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. "
86 " أحسست بالرغبة في أن تلقي الشرطة القبض علي و توجه لي تهمة حيازة عقل لا يمكنني التحكم فيه. "
― Hanif Kureishi , Intimacy
87 " 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. "
88 " 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. "
― Hanif Kureishi , Midnight all Day
89 " 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. "
90 " 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. "
91 " تتساءل لماذا يتحمّل الناس كل ذلك، لأنهم اعتادوا على ذلك. و لم يعد بإمكانهم أن يروا إمكانية أن تكون الأشياء مختلفة. ما يفاجئني ليس الكم الكثير الذي يطلبه الناس، بل القليل الذي يطلبونه. "
92 " Surely you’ve noticed that most people live without love, spending their lives trying to find people they’re not turned on by. "
93 " The best stories are the open ones, those you don’t quite understand. "
94 " 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. "
95 " Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. "
96 " If you want to know a man, see how he is in love. "
97 " 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? "
98 " 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. "
99 " 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. "
100 " Born for disappointment, she only wanted what I couldn’t give. "