"Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions."

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Source : Hanif Kureishi (2016). “Love in a Blue Time”, p.122, Faber & Faber

Hanif Kureishi

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“All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.”
“Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn't be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet.”
“No totalitarians, no wars, no fears, famines or perils of any kind can really break a man's spirit until he breaks it himself by surrendering. Tyranny has many dread powers, but not the power to rule the spirit.”
“Obviously making Peter Parker suddenly bisexual or gay wouldn't really make logical or dramatic sense. It was a hypothetical kind of question about the nature of these comic book characters and the nature of this particular character, and whether sexuality, race, any of those things makes any difference to the character of Peter Parker.”
“I really enjoy my philanthropic work, traveling around the world and helping people in need. That's a lot of fun for me. It's really rewarding. You're helping people, but it's helping you. It puts life in perspective.”

Source : "Cardinals' Larry Fitzgerald talks playoff hopes, trade rumors, more in Q&A". Interview with Tom Pelissero, www.usatoday.com. July 10, 2014.
“My kid is not going to wear a flat bill.”
“Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.”
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