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Mohsin Hamid
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 23
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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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There's a reason prophets perform miracles language lacks the power to describe faith.
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I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in my senior year there, I took a long fiction workshop with Toni Morrison. I fell in love with it.
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The monolithic view that many Americans have of Pakistani culture is as inaccurate as the monolithic view that many Pakistanis have of American culture.
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If we try to 'protect ourselves', our nation-states begin to look like prisons.
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You're a watchful guy. you know where that comes from? I shook my head. It comes from feeling out of place, he said. Believe me. I know.
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I believe one can gauge a book's impact only after about 10 years.
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The ethnocultural connotations of the burkini ban are very strong. It's as absurd as mandating that women have to go topless on the beach. If I were a woman, I definitely would not want to wear a burkini or a headscarf. But it's not about what I want.
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Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.
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When I'm really plugged in I find it difficult to write. It's like digging a well. If you make a void, something moves in to fill it. Writing books is like that. It's mostly about freeing up time, doing nothing, and in that time some writing starts to happen. We need to figure out how to maintain those voids.
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There really still is a deep wound, you know, in the collective psyche of Pakistan. And the violence has left enormous human and emotional and psychic damage. That's not going to go away. But that said, I think I'm cautiously optimistic that we're looking at a better future.
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I felt suddenly very young - or perhaps I felt my age.
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Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.
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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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When terrorism strikes, divisive anger is a natural response.
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All over the world, the nativist perspective is being privileged over those who are more recent arrivals.
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It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we should not imagine that you Americans are all undercover assassins.
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In Italian, the word for novel is romanzo, the romance. The English is novel - something new. Both of those elements, experimentation and love, are fundamental to the form.
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I am a strong believer in the intertwined nature of the personal and the political I think they move together.
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I was, in my own eyes, a veritable James Bond — only younger, darker, and possibly better paid.
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