"The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising."

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Source : Hanif Kureishi (2014). “The Word and the Bomb”, p.5, Faber & Faber

Hanif Kureishi

#World Quotes #Advertising Quotes #Vocation Quotes

“All magic is about transformation... the performance magician is telling you that you are the magician in your own life. You are the agent of transformation, your own transformation.”
“Scientists like myself merely use their gifts to show up that which already exists, and we look small compared to the artists who create works of beauty out of themselves. If a good fairy came and offered me back my youth, asking me which gifts I would rather have, those to make visible a thing which exists but which no man has ever seen before, or the genius needed to create, in a style of architecture never imagined before, the great Town Hall in which we are dining tonight, I might be tempted to choose the latter.”
“You are saved - seek to be like your Savior.”
“Clerks get into the damnedest wrangles--which is the way they help me.”
“The element of heroic maleness had always been present in the concept of the artist as one who rides the winged horse above the clouds beyond the sight of lesser men, a concept seldom applied to those who worked with colours until the nineteenth century. When the inevitable question is asked, "Why are there no great women artists?" it is this dimension of art that is implied. The askers know little of art, but they know the seven wonders of the painting world.”
“A writer has to true to him or herself. Period. Thatâ€™s it!”
“When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me”
“Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.”

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