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Hanif Kureishi

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HANIF KUREISHI I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.
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HANIF KUREISHI People go their whole lives wanting to be admired for their hidden qualities.
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HANIF KUREISHI Doesn’t civilisation mean keeping your temper when there is no reason for restraint?
HANIF KUREISHI The mad were put in asylums, but the sane are worse off in their offices.
HANIF KUREISHI Just as my body had changed at puberty, now I was developing a sense of guilt, a sense not only of h...
HANIF KUREISHI There’s a lot of degradation in sex, isn’t there?”
“When it’s done right.
HANIF KUREISHI There was no right to same-sex marriage before Measure 36, and there is no right to same-sex marriag...
CHARLES FLETCHER Life's irony;One of the biggest terminator of sex is marriage,in life most times marriage kills sex,...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life's irony;Sex is an event that should be practiced exclusively inside marriage,but most times the...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) We received 30-plus offers on the property.
BILL MILLER Same-sex marriage has not created problems for religious institutions; religious institutions have c...
DASHANNE STOKES But the fact that same-sex marriage is still an issue is insane. Thinking love knows a sex is ridicu...
GARRET DILLAHUNT Life's irony;Almost every person in life loves sex,but we hide our desire for sex under the guise of...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) God created sex. Priests created marriage.
VOLTAIRE If your wife is not having sex with you, you felt it was all right to go outside of marriage to have...
ED HAZEL When God said no sex before marriage, this is what he was trying to avoid: baby mommas and baby dadd...
TAYLA-MARIE MANNERS Same-sex marriage is not the future.
MAGGIE GALLAGHER Proponents of same-sex marriage regularly label opponents 'radical' and 'extremist.'...
DENNIS PRAGER The church's position has been that they really didn't have anything against gays, although everyone...
OLIN THOMAS For a $3 million-plus property, the average amount spent is about $10,000.
ANITA TAUBER There are definite political ramifications to a court-imposed same-sex marriage.
JOSEPH FUITEN You know what my mum once said?’ said Rosie… ‘She said that if a just-married couple put a coi...
NEIL GAIMAN Never marry because of sex,for you may go into the union & be utterly disappointed in the sexual ven...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The state of same-sex marriage in Massachusetts is strong.
GARY BUSECK The difference between sex with David and sex with Stephen is like the difference between science an...
NICK HORNBY We've had 19 consecutive votes on same-sex marriage bans, ... Eighteen states have passed them.
MATT FOREMAN Women are also property in our bible; adultery is a property crime in the Old Testament, not a sex c...
BILL MAHER The court held that legislators must demonstrate a specific, individualized harm in order to challen...
LENA AYOUB Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people tog...
SIMONE SIGNORET Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people tog...
SIMONE SIGNORET When one person in a marriage is going to the Internet to get sex, it erodes the intimacy in the mar...
JENN BERMAN Demand in the machinery industry is quite strong, stronger than I expected. Higher rents are also a ...
MINORU TAKADA I'll never know the right answer for sex and marriage, sense and mirage.
JAMES THURBER I think that every state in the union should recognize same-sex marriage.
CASS SUNSTEIN A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.
GLORIA STEINEM Redefining marriage will have huge implications for what is taught in our schools, and for wider soc...
KEITH O'BRIEN Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave th...
ANAïS NIN Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have...
GROUCHO MARX They recognized the importance of the same-sex marriage decision. We're a bit of an egalitarian stat...
JOSEPH FUITEN The state has failed to identify any constitutionally adequate reason for denying civil marriage to ...
MARGARET MARSHALL These three Institutions;Sex,Marriage & Religion should never be toyed with in life,because more tha...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) God created the institution of marriage for mutual happiness and pleasure
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY Galatians 5:19-21Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, id...
BIBLE Personally, I know nothing about sex, because I have always been married.
ZSA ZSA GABOR Judicial imposition of same-sex marriage seems to be on the horizon. We also oppose efforts to strip...
EDWARD WHELAN The Federal government does not recognize same-sex marriage. If you're in Massachusetts, you can fil...
HAL ROBERTS I will not officiate over a same-sex marriage or civil union. That goes against all of God's teachin...
JEFF POWELL You had four members of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court who suddenly found a right to same-...
JAN LARUE Clearly, looking at the 2004 presidential election the issue of same-sex marriage resonated with Afr...
LAMELL MCMORRIS Despite the vigorous policy and legal debates surrounding same-sex marriage, there is little disagre...
PAM BONDI Plus, there was very little physical evidence of what happened.
CHRIS TRENKMANN Same sex marriage is not an expression of human right but human wrong. Any nation that rationalizes ...
SYLLABUS ONAJOBI I have not supported same-sex marriage. I have supported civil partnerships and contractual relation...
HILLARY CLINTON It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate.
MARY CHENEY failed to identify any constitutionally adequate reason for denying civil marriage to same-sex coupl...
DARYN KAGAN Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heteros...
TED OLSON The United States Constitution does not one time even mention marriage. It neither requires Congress...
TRENT FRANKS Several of the girls at the party had had sex, something which sounded appealing but only if it coul...
AIMEE BENDER I only gave out my opinion that same sex marriage is against the law of God.
MANNY PACQUIAO Successful marriage is a testimony of greatest and sustained compromise struck between two opposite ...
ANUJ SOMANY "Sex,marriage & child upbringing are the three most difficult events in the world today."-david atta
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I often say that if you want to really want to understand the contract of marriage, just ask anyone ...
HARVEY FIERSTEIN Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endure...
BERTRAND RUSSELL The truth is that wherever a man lies with a woman, there, whether they like it or not, a transcende...
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DEYTH BANGER I don't support gay marriage, but I also don't support a constitutional amendment banning it...
BOB CASEY, JR. We say that the most dangerous
criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compare...
G.K. CHESTERTON I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.
JOEL OSTEEN Laws of Sex;Psychology;If as a teenager you have been brought up in an environment that says "sex is...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marr...
GERTRUDE STEIN Today what was impossible is made possible and the rest is history
SUNDAY ADELAJA We've seen a steady improvement in the number of people who support marriage equality for same-sex c...
EVAN WOLFSON Marriage equality is a term so ridiculous on its face that when you hear it mentioned, you would thi...
HENRY ROLLINS The support for same sex marriage isn't there yet - fine. It's a hard idea for people to get their h...
ANN DEGROOT He spent the next weeks blocking scenes of the bureaucrat fucking his wife. On the floor with cookin...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER I say I don’t sleep with married men, but what I mean is that I don’t sleep with happily married m...
BRITT EKLAND ...for a couple to engage in sex before marriage is doubly wrong—they are enjoying pleasures not i...
UNKNOWN The issue doesn't go away, ... Support will only increase. The more the public hears about same-sex ...
MARK LENO More often than not, a woman marries for money and a man marries for sex. What difference does a she...
DIANA PALMER Marriage isn't a love affair. It isn't even a honeymoon. It's a job. A long hard job, at which both ...
ROSAMUNDE PILCHER Although sex was something they both regarded as perilous, marriage had, by contrast, seemed safe–...
MICHAEL CHABON The governor has been consistent in saying he's fine with same-sex marriage if the courts and the pe...
GEOFFREY KORS When you begin to fantasize about what you don't have, you begin to kill what you do have. #marriage
JAYCE O'NEAL By formally declaring anyone opposed to same-sex marriage an enemy of human decency, the majority ar...
ANTONIN SCALIA Sex was lovely. Sex was sublime. Sex was flesh and cock and suck and fuck and come. This night sex w...
AMY LANE Any sex outside of the marriage bond between a man and a woman is violating God's law.
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