Hanif Kureishi Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• My pleasures disappeared with my vices.

  Hanif Kureishi

  Vices, Pleasure

  Hanif Kureishi (2009). “Something to Tell You: A Novel”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

• Secrets are my currency: I deal in them for a living. The secrets of desire, of what people really want, and of what they fear the most. The secrets of why love is difficult, sex complicated, living painful and death so close and yet placed far away. Why are pleasure and punishment closely related? How do our bodies speak? Why do we make ourselves ill? Why do you want to fail? Why is pleasure hard to bear?

  Hanif Kureishi

  Sex, Love Is, Punishment

  Hanif Kureishi (2009). “Something to Tell You: A Novel”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

• I began to enjoy my own generosity; I felt the pleasure of pleasing others, especially as this was accompanied by money-power. I was paying for them; they were grateful, they had to be; and they could no longer see me as a failure.

  Hanif Kureishi

  Grateful, Pleasing Others, Generosity

  Hanif Kureishi (2009). “The Buddha of Suburbia”, p.260, Faber & Faber

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