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Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.

Mohsin Hamid

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Mohsin Hamid
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 23
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I commit her to memory. When I'm alone, I feel a strange yearning, the hunger of a man fasting not because he believes but because he's ashamed. Not the cleansing hunger of the devout, but the feverish hunger of the hypocrite. I let her go every evening only because there's nothing I can do to stop her.
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When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.
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Four thousand years ago, we, the people of the Indus River basin, had cities that were laid out on grids and boasted underground sewers, while the ancestors of those who would invade and colonize America were illiterate barbarians.
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Capitalism is like the law of the jungle with a few rules. There isn't another system that works for our society but left unchecked, capitalism can have a dehumanising effect.
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Novel writing is the slowest art form in the world. It is not a sprint. It is not even a marathon. It is a series of marathons that stretch over and over across a continent.
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I'm not sure if guys are supposed to read Vanity Fair. I feel very metrosexual with it but am not sure it's in my comfort zone.
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We're being subject to incredible amounts of surveillance, the police are taking on draconian powers and violating our rights. I think this attempt to protect ourselves is ultimately going to founder because people don't like living inside prisons.
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We think of the romance novel as a lesser form of literature, but I don't think that's true. Love is a very important aspect of human life and worth exploring.
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A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.
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When I travel, I feel more like a nomad than a tourist.
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There's a reason prophets perform miracles language lacks the power to describe faith.
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Literature helps us transcend ourselves.
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I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.
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Our countries are weaker: they cannot protect us from imported goods, they can't protect us from climate change, they cannot protect us from epidemics. These things cross borders. But the kind of cooperation that would protect us from those things was completely lacking and because of this there's been a backlash. People feel vulnerable.
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When terrorism strikes, divisive anger is a natural response.
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It's important to have a non-nostalgic view and say, let's look forward, because if we don't, all we'll hear are voices telling us to go back.
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How many big businesses don't resort to underhand means?
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I think that people are going to move. They always have and that's going to continue. The question is, how are we going to deal with it?
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If we want things to be okay, we will have to make things okay.
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