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I believe one can gauge a book's impact only after about 10 years.
Mohsin Hamid
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Mohsin Hamid
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 23
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Novels function and the power of novels function because of their stories.
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All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood.
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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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Lahore, the second largest city of Pakistan, ancient capital of the Punjab, home to nearly as many people as New York, layered like a sedimentary plain with the accreted history of invaders from the Aryans to the Mongols to the British.
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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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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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India to someone who lives in Lahore is like Queens to someone who lives in Lower Manhattan - it's not far away, and yet it doesn't exist.
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My earliest memories are of watching Star Trek and MASH while my parents barbecued chicken in the back yard. I was an American kid, through and through.
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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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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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Novels are make-believe and play for adults.
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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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How many big businesses don't resort to underhand means?
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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 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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Literature helps us transcend ourselves.
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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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The ban on the burkini, which is basically a wetsuit, seems particularly ridiculous.
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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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