185 Quotes by Hanif Kureishi

The best stories are the open ones, those you don’t quite understand.

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

The world’s full of people with unusual beliefs, Julia. Scientologists, Rastafarians, Catholics, Moonies, Mormons, Baptists, Tories, dentists, captains of industry – every madness has its cheerleader. The asylums and parliament are crammed full of delusionists, and only a madman would want to eliminate them.

The questions had become: What can we forgive in others? How far do they have to go before we lose faith in them?

Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.

Talent might be a gift but it still has to be cultivated. The imagination is like a fire or furnace: it has to be stoked, fed and attended to. One thing sets another ablaze. Keep it going.

Without parents who had time for her, at an early age she had made herself self-sufficient.

Love cannot be measured by its duration...

The truth is always a surprise.