The Body Quotes

“Behind every vocation there is a fetish.”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Body

“As a Newbody, however, I began to like the pornographic circus of rough sex; the stuff that resembled some of the modern dance I had seen, animalistic, without talk. I begged to be turned into meat, held down, tied, blindfolded, slapped, pulled and strangled, entirely merged in the physical, all my swirling selves sucked into orgasm.”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Body

“إن الأشخاص الذين يعيشون حياة ثانية، كالأشخاص الذين يتزوجون للمرة الثانية، يأخذون كل ما يقومون به عادة على محمل الجد على نحو أكبر مما كانوا يفعلونه من قبل. إذ"يبدو لهم أن كل لحظة هي أثمن من اللحظة التي سبقتها”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Body

“I was falling in love with myself. Not that beauty, or life itself, means much if you’re in a room on your own. Heaven is other people.”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Body

“After a bit you realize there’s only one invaluable commodity. Not gold or love, but time.”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Body

“A few words of criticism and I can bear a grudge for three days at a time, convinced she is plotting against me. None of this has diminished despite years of self-analysis, therapy and “writing as healing”, as some of my students used to call the attempt to make at. Nothing has cured me of myself, of the self I cling to. If you asked me, I would probably say that my problems are myself; my life is my dilemmas. I’d better enjoy them, then.”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Body

“لعله من الخطأ أن عدم معرفة المرء بالأشياء الإيروتيكية والرغبة الدنيوية تساعد في قتل الرغبة. إذ يمكن للرغبة أن تجد أصغر فجوة تسلل منها”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Body