“Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history.”

— Hanif Kureishi

Source: Intimacy: das Buch zum Film von Patrice Chéreau

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English playwright, screenwriter, novelist 1954

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