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Hanif Kureishi
Hanif Kureishi
English Playwright
Born: Dec 5, 1954
Desire Like Me Sense Writing You
Related authors: Christopher Fry Francis Beaumont Jack Thorne John Osborne John Webster Laurence Housman Noel Coward Peter Shaffer
I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida. Hanif Kureishi
People Philosophical Like Freud Psychology Interested Nietzsche
It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do? Hanif Kureishi
Work Me Language Understanding Philosophical Seemed Come Terms Does How Real Were Where Breakthroughs Century
I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it. Hanif Kureishi
Crazy Writing About Obsessive Because Disciplined Always Person
If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of getting out of it faster. Hanif Kureishi
You Faster Analyst Months Out Stuck Least Get Getting Depressed Chance
I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in. Hanif Kureishi
You Writing Better Sense Guess Say Out Kind Than Them Therapy Things Need
My father was a civil servant, so having a regular job, being respectable is a big deal for me. Respectable in the sense that I support my family. That's what I mean by respectability. Hanif Kureishi
Family Me Father Job Big Sense Respectability Respectable Civil Civil Servant Having Support Deal Big Deal Being Mean Regular Servant
You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire. Hanif Kureishi
Life You Yourself Yesterday Spend Follow Something Beating Up Die Happened Your Desire

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