"Without love, most of life remains concealed. Nothing is as fascinating as love, unfortunately."

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Source : Hanif Kureishi (2002). “Intimacy and Midnight All Day: A Novel and Stories”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

Hanif Kureishi

#Remains Quotes

“I have learned, as I wrote, that history must be discovered, not declared. It's an admission that one grows in life.”
“A witch, a vampire, and a pixy walk into a bar, I thought as I led the way into the Squirrelâ€™s End. It was early, and the sun had yet to set when the door swung shut behind Jenks, sealing us in the warm air smelling faintly of smoke. Immediately Nick yanked it open to come in behind us. And thereâ€™s the punch line.”
“When the light of the sun shines through a prism it is broken into beautiful colours, and when the prism is shattered, still the light remains. So does the life of life shine resplendent in the forms of our friends, and so, when their forms are broken, still their life remains; and in that life we are united with them; for the life of their life is also our life, and we are one with them by ties indissoluble.”

Source : "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.
“Gimme: an agreement between two losers who can't putt.”
“Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“There is nothing like the first hot days of spring when the gardener stops wondering if it's too soon to plant the dahlias and starts wondering if it's too late. Even the most beautiful weather will not allay the gardener's notion (well-founded actually) that he is somehow too late, too soon, or that he has too much stuff going on or not enough. For the garden is the stage on which the gardener exults and agonizes out every crest and chasm of the heart.”
“Welfare reform happened with reconciliation; half the Democrats voted for it. The Bush tax cuts happened with reconciliation; twelve Democratic Senators voted for it. You didn't have a real partisan issue on those times that it was used”
“I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didnt publish my first book until I was 41.”

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