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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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Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.
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As a child I read all kinds of stuff, whether it was 'Asterix and Obelix' and 'Tin Tin' comic books, or 'Lord of the Rings,' or Frank Herbert's sci-fi. Or 'The Wind in the Willows.' Or 'Charlotte's Web.'
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When I travel, I feel more like a nomad than a tourist.
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All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood.
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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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Writing a novel is like an amusement park or a museum or a city. You go into that place and you have certain experiences and those experiences, hopefully, have some impact on you.
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We keep the negative stuff because it's the negative stuff that's going to, you know, potentially kill us. That fin in the water - maybe it is a shark. That yellow thing behind the tree - maybe it is a lion. You need to be scared.
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And with a last stardrop, a last circle, I arrive, and she's there, chemical wonder in her eyes.
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The ban on the burkini, which is basically a wetsuit, seems particularly ridiculous.
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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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Why the brevity? Because I'd rather people read my book twice than only half-way through
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The world seems concerned with Pakistan primarily as an actor in global attempts to combat terrorism.
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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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Literature helps us transcend ourselves.
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Islamophobia, in all its guises, seeks to minimise the importance of the individual and maximise the importance of the group. Yet our instinctive stance ought to be one of suspicion towards such endeavours. For individuals are undeniably real. Groups, on the other hand, are assertions of opinion.
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I believe one can gauge a book's impact only after about 10 years.
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Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.
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I think we should be prepared, given environmental and political change for large-scale migration. If sea levels rise and 200 million people in Bangladesh and 300 million people in Indonesia need to move, and the entire Chinese seaboard, New York City - that's going to be huge.
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I felt suddenly very young - or perhaps I felt my age.
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When we aren't collectively imagining hopeful futures, then the way things are going almost invariably seems negative and frightening.
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