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Hanif Kureishi

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Hanif Kureishi Quotes

Total quotes: 3

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Hanif Kureishi

Birthname

Birthday: December 5, 1954

Educated At: King's College London

Nationality: United Kingdom

Occupations: Playwright, Novelist, Screenwriter, Writer

Total quotes: 3

“At the same time, you have to find the right distance between people. Too close, and they overwhelm you, too far and they abandon you. How to hold them in the right relation?”

— Hanif Kureishi, Intimacy and Midnight All Day

Tagged: Relationships

“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.”

— Hanif Kureishi, Intimacy

Tagged: Relationships

“And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language.”

— Hanif Kureishi, Intimacy and Midnight All Day: A Novel and Stories

Tagged: Meaningful Silence, Silence Speaks

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