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Why do people who are good at families have to be smug and assume it is the only way to live. … Why can’t they be blamed for being bad at promiscuity?

Hanif Kureishi

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Hanif Kureishi
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 5
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Film Director
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
London
England
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Smug
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Promiscuity
Blamed
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Families
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