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Mohsin Hamid
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 23
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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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If we try to 'protect ourselves', our nation-states begin to look like prisons.
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Walking is very good for writers. There's something fundamentally useful about not talking to anybody, not looking at a screen, and being in nature - even if that nature is an urban environment.
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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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For me, language is about the impossibility of communicating what we precisely wish to communicate and this gorgeous attempt that we make to do that anyway. I love that we will never say exactly what we mean, but we will forever keep trying.
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I felt suddenly very young - or perhaps I felt my age.
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Lived religion is a very different thing from strict textual analysis. Very few people of any faith live their lives as literalist interpretations of scripture.
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Religion is not something I like to talk about publicly. One reason is the politics, but also I think spirituality is deeply personal.
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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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think that the external situation has also changed somewhat. The reduction of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan has, in a sense, reduced how inflamed the situation on the Pakistani border regions was and is.
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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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If we want things to be okay, we will have to make things okay.
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