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I am a strong believer in the intertwined nature of the personal and the political I think they move together.

Mohsin Hamid

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Mohsin Hamid
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 23
Novelist
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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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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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Literature helps us transcend ourselves.
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My dad had this outlook: It doesn't matter what I want to read - reading was a good thing. So whatever I was curious about they'd get for me from the library. Books were a kind of a resistance to reality. I liked to imagine worlds that were different. I still do.
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For me, writing a novel is like solving a puzzle. But I don't intend my novels as puzzles. I intend them as invitations to dance.
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We should be very skeptical of people who want to place limits on how we express ourselves.
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What else is belief but direction?
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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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The mobile phone is very dangerous. If you're walking and looking at your phone, you're not walking - you're surfing the internet.
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We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains.
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I responded to the gravity of an invisible moon at my core, and I undertook journeys I had not expected to take.
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The fruits of labor are delicious, but individually they’re not particularly fattening. So don’t share yours, and munch on those of others whenever you can.
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We're all united in this, that every human being migrates through time, that the place we grew up in in our childhood is gone when we're in our 50s and 60s and 70s.
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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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Why the brevity? Because I'd rather people read my book twice than only half-way through
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Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.
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When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.
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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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And with a last stardrop, a last circle, I arrive, and she's there, chemical wonder in her eyes.
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