"Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history."

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Source : Hanif Kureishi (2002). “Intimacy and Midnight All Day: A Novel and Stories”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

Hanif Kureishi

#Hurt Quotes #Stranger Quotes #Intimacy Quotes

“When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.”
“As soon as I was born, my mom said I was humming 'When the Saints Go Marching In,' or something like that, you know? It's in the family. And in that neighborhood [Treme, in New Orleans], I think everybody in the neighborhood has some type of musical influence, even if they don't play instruments or anything. It's the way they talk to you, the way they say your name - it's all musical.”
“You're making me nervous by being so weird. But your weirdness is what I like about you.”

Source : Jaclyn Moriarty (2010). “The Year of Secret Assignments”, p.78, Scholastic Inc.
“What is difficult is to keep the sweet voice with an aggressive message.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing.”
“I am a non Zionist because the Jew, in seeking a homeland of his own, seems to me to be giving up something of infinitely greater value of the world. ... I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior.”
“Why should I seek for love or study it? It is of God and passes human wit; I study hatred with great diligence, For that's a passion in my own control, A sort of besom that can clear the soul Of everything that is not mind or sense.”
“Soft words, with nothing in them, make a song.”

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