"If you never left anything or anyone there would be no room for the new. Naturally, to move on is an infidelity -- to others, to the past, to old notions of oneself. Perhaps every day should contain at least one essential infidelity or necessary betrayal. It would be an optimistic, hopeful act, guaranteeing belief in the future -- a declaration that things can be not only different but better."

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Source : Hanif Kureishi (2010). “Intimacy”, p.7, Faber & Faber

Hanif Kureishi

#Betrayal Quotes #Moving Quotes #Optimistic Quotes

“The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of them in our modern culture without going over the ground again.”

Source : Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1875). “The Intellectual Life”, p.163
“You never have to advertise a fire. Everyone comes running when there's a fire. Likewise, if your church is on fire, you will not have to advertise it. The community will already know it.”
“A little humour is good for the soul - regardless of how old you may be.”
“The reason that the American Navy does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the Americans practice chaos on a daily basis.”
“I pray if I ever find out I have only about three minutes to live it's during a basketball game, because then I'll have, what, 10, 12 years to live?”
“People look at film in a gallery, and if they walk out after two minutes they know they haven't seen the whole work. But then people look at a painting for two minutes and think they've seen it. Certain paintings are made to be consumed fast. But some require a slowed-down time. You have to go back to them.”

Source : "Julie Mehretu paints chaos with chaos - from Tahrir Square to Zuccotti Park". Interview with Jason Farago, www.theguardian.com. June 20, 2013.
“Had Mittag-Leffler had his way, I should have to wait until the year 1984, which to me seemed too great a demand!”

Source : Personal Letter, 1885.
“Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I've got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs?”

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