Quotes from Hanif Kureishi

The whites will never promote us,' Dad said. 'Not an Indian while there is a white man left on the earth. You don't have to deal with them – they still think they have an Empire when they don't have two pennies to rub together.

Nije li erotika neutaziva glad koja samu sebe pothranjuje?

Istina nas uvek iznenadi.

Praise someone ones and they are yours forever.

Narcissism is our religion. The selfie stuck is our cross, and we must carry it everywhere.

Narcissism is our religion. The selfie stick is our cross, and we must carry it everywhere.

NIkad se nisam zamajavao nacelima vernosti ili okovima tradicionalnog. Cestitost je patolosko nasilje a dobrota prepreka.

However much anodyne talk there is of one's kind , a society that is racist is a society that cannot accept itself, that hates part of itself so deeply that it cannot see, does not want to see - because of its spiritual and political nullity and inanition - how much people have in common with each other.

Ali isto tako sam i shvatio da prestupnistvo samo ucvrscuje pravila koja pokusava da prekrsi. Nista ne osnazuje normu kao odstupanje od nje.

This new part of my life wasn't a woman who would seem attractive straight-on in a passport photograph. She had no conventional beauty, her features were not exquisitely proportioned and her face was a bit chubby. But she was lovely because the round face with the straight dyed-blonde hair, which fell over her forehead and into her eyes, was open. Her face was constantly in motion, and this was the source of her beauty.

Erosova masinerija sastavlja i rastavlja, obnavlja u coveku zudnju za zivotom.

I put my arms out in front of me so the dog wouldn't rip my hands off. I must have looked like a sleepwalker, but as I wanted my hands for other purposes, I didn't care about this baroque pose, though as a rule I cared fanatically about the way I looked, and behaved as if the entire world had nothing better to do than constantly observe me for slips in a very complicated and private etiquette

Starenje nije za slabice.

Desire makes me laugh because it makes fools of us all. Still, rather a fool than a fascist.

Krivcu mozes da radis sta ti padne na pamet.

How utterly our past suffuses us. We live in all our days at once.

I'm using Mao as my inspiration. "Cast away illusions. Prepare for struggle." I'm back in business, baby. You don't know you're stuck until you get moving.

The striking thing about the normal is that there is nothing normal about it: normality is the gentrification of ordinary madness—ask any Surrealist.

the innocent have everything—integrity, respect, moral goodness—except pleasure. Pleasure: vortex and abyss—that which we desire and fear simultaneously. Pleasure implies dirtying your hands and mind, and being threatened; there is fear, disgust, self-loathing and moral failure. Pleasure was hard work; not everyone, perhaps not most people, could bear to find it.

of all the perversions, the strangest was celibacy, the desire to cancel all desire, to hate it. Not that you could abolish it once and for all. Desire, like the dead or an unpleasant meal, would keep returning—it was ultimately indigestible.

One night, when I am old, sick, right out of semen, and don't need things to get any worse, I hear the voices again.

The past looks worse the closer you look at it.

What idiots we were! How misinformed! Why didn't we understand that we were happily condemning ourselves to being nothing better than motor-mechanics? Why couldn't we see that? For Eleanor's crowd hard words and sophisticated ideas were in the air they breathed from birth, and this language was the currency that bought you the best of what the world could offer. But for us it could only ever be a second language, consciously acquired.

Whoever thought that pleasure makes you happy?