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I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.
Hanif Kureishi
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Hanif Kureishi
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: December 5
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Dear God, teach me to be careless.
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I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.
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I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.
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Almost certainly I will not tell her my intentions this evening or tonight. I will put it off. Why? Because words are actions and they make things happen. Once they are out you cannot put them back.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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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?
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Fundamentalism is dictatorship of the mind
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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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You don't stop loving someone just because you hate them.
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And silence, like darkness, can be kind it, too, is a language.
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