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  1. Hanif Kureishi _ The Buddha of Suburbia

    However angry I was with him, however much I wanted to humiliate Terry, I suddenly saw such humanity in his eyes, and in the way he tried to smile - such innocence in the way he wanted to understand me, and such possibility of pain, along with the implicit assumption that he wouldn't be harmed - that I pulled away.
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  2. Hanif Kureishi _ The Buddha of Suburbia

    He remembered, though, that his favorite servant had been sacked for kitchen misdemeanors; once for making toast by lying on his back and suspending bread from between his toes over a flame, and on a second occasion for cleaning celery with a toothbrush--his own brush, as it happened, not the Master's, but that was no excuse.
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  3. Hanif Kureishi _ The Buddha of Suburbia

    As I watched Jamila I thought what a terrific person she'd become. She was low today, and she was often scornful of me anyway, the supercilious bitch, but I couldn't help seeing that there was in her a great depth of will, of delight in the world, and much energy for love. Her feminism, the sense of self and fight it engendered, the schemes and plans she had, the relationships - which she desired to take this form and not that form - the things she had made herself know, and all the understanding this gave, seemed to illuminate her tonight as she went forward, an Indian woman, to live a useful life in white England.
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  4. Hanif Kureishi _ The Buddha of Suburbia

    Ja minä voin viedä tuon naisen - hän tarkoitti vaimoaan - ulos johonkin kauniiseen paikkaan.' 'Mihin kauniiseen paikkaan sinä viet sen, oopperaanko? Siellä pyörii kuulemma hyvä produktio Rigolettosta.' 'Eläintarhaan, jumalauta! Minne ikinä haluaa!' Anwar heittäytyi sentimentaaliseksi, kuten tunteettomat ihmiset usein."
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  5. Hanif Kureishi _ The Buddha of Suburbia

    - Creo que la felicidad sólo es posible si nos dejamos guiar por nuestros sentimientos, nuestra intuición y nuestros deseos verdaderos. Si se actúa empujado por el sentido del deber, la obligación, el sentimiento de culpabilidad o el deseo de contentar a los demás, sólo se consigue la desdicha. Hay que aceptar la felicidad cuando es posible, no de un modo egoísta, sino teniendo siempre presente que formamos parte del mundo, de los demás, que no somos algo independiente. ¿Hay que perseguir la propia felicidad, cueste lo que cueste, a expensas de los demás? ¿O hay que ser desdichado para que los demás puedan ser felices? No hay nadie que no haya tenido que enfrentarse a este dilema.
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  6. Hanif Kureishi _ The Buddha of Suburbia

    - Nos aferramos al pasado -dijo-, a lo antiguo, porque tenemos miedo. {...} Nuestras vidas se estancan, se vuelven rancias. Nos da miedo todo lo nuevo, todo cuanto podría ayudarnos a crecer, a cambiar.
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  7. Hanif Kureishi _ The Buddha of Suburbia

    I've always hated your fucking nagging.' 'It's not nagging, it's for compassion.' 'Right. I won't be coming back here, Eva. You're such a drag now. It's your age. Is it the menopause that's making you like this?
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  8. Hanif Kureishi _ The Buddha of Suburbia

    London seemed like a house with five thousand rooms, all different; the kick was to work out how they connected, and eventually to walk through all of them.
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  9. Hanif Kureishi _ The Buddha of Suburbia

    Asentí con la cabeza. Al fin y al cabo asentir no puede considerarse exactamente una mentira, ¿no?
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  10. Hanif Kureishi _ The Buddha of Suburbia

    Cuando hablo conmigo mismo, es con ella con quien hablo
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  11. Hanif Kureishi _ The Buddha of Suburbia

    Papá me enseñó a coquetear con todo el mundo, chicas y chicos, y acabé por considerar el encanto -y no la cortesía o la franqueza, o incluso la decencia- la principal virtud mundana
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  12. Hanif Kureishi _ The Buddha of Suburbia

    {My father} murmured only, 'you can always tell when a woman is ready for sex. Oh yes. Her ears get hot.'I looked keenly at Helen's ears. I even reached out and pinched one of them lightly, for scientific confirmation. Warmish!
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