"I don't want to be loved. I want to be desired. Love is safety, but desire is foul."

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Source : Hanif Kureishi (2009). “Something to Tell You: A Novel”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

Hanif Kureishi

#Love Is Quotes #Safety Quotes #Desire Quotes

“Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times...I just shoot at what interests me at that moment.”
“It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves.”
“Essentially, if our secrets are secrets because we are told to be ashamed, then we must share them. There is no shame in being sad or struggling or trying to heal. We are all desperate, depraved and sacred. We are all terrible and brillIant. I can list all the things that can make a girl want to escape her own body (re: patriarchy). But Iâ€™d rather list all the things that make me want to stay in my body, and adorn it like a home, rub oils into my skin, tell it how sorry I am for trying to leave, for trying to hurt it into submission”
“Just as you must eat, drink, and breathe to live, you must read the Bible, pray, and be involved in a church to stay spiritually alive and vital. You never will outgrow these things.”
“I think every athlete thatâ€™s just out here for the Olympics just does something to inspire those around them and inspire each other.”
“We runnin around in thousand-dollar clown suits, Better get some boots when Lucifer turn your city to Beirut.”

Source : Song: Soul On Ice
“God bestows His blessings without discrimination. The followers of Jesus are children of God, and they should manifest the family likeness by doing good to all, even to those who deserve the opposite.”

Source : Walter C. Kaiser, Jr., Peter H. Davids, F. F. Bruce, Manfred Brauch (2010). “Hard Sayings of the Bible”, p.366, InterVarsity Press
“The human animal ... is ... neither male nor female ... And if I am allowed to jest a little in passing, I have a joke that is not altogether irrelevant: nothing resembles a male cat on the windowsill more than a female cat.”

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