"Dear God, teach me to be careless."

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Source : Hanif Kureishi (2002). “Intimacy and Midnight All Day: A Novel and Stories”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

Hanif Kureishi

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“The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.”
“Nature insists on whatever benefits the whole.”
“Walk through life as a Blessed Person and a Miracle Maker.”
“Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.”

Source : 1968 Forty Years On (published1969), act 2.
“When people are mean to you, win them over with kindness. If it doesn't work, you still win.”
“I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it. I stand in awe of my own opinion. The secret demerits of which we alone, perhaps, are conscious, are often more difficult to bear than those which have been publicly censured in us, and thus in some degree atoned for.”
“By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.”
“THE NAME OF THE WIND has everything fantasy readers like, magic and mysteries and ancient evil, but it's also humorous and terrifying and completely believable. As with all the very best books in our field, it's not the fantasy trappings (wonderful as they are) that make this novel so good, but what the author has to say about true, common things, about ambition and failure, art, love, and loss.”

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