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Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.
Mohsin Hamid
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Mohsin Hamid
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 23
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If my daughter wanted to wear a headscarf and dress in a religiously conservative way, I would be heartbroken. But if she were to decide to do that and she were to live in a place where people said she couldn't do that, I would be entirely committed to her right to do so.
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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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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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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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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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Yes, Manila had its slums one saw them on the drive from the airport: vast districts of men in dirty white undershirts lounging idly in front of auto-repair shops - like a poorer version of the 1950s America depicted in such films as Grease.
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Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
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Chance plays a powerful role in every life - our brains and personalities are just chemical soup, after all a few drops here or there matter enormously - but consequences often become more serious as income levels go down.
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What else is belief but direction?
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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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I think fiction allows you to inhabit new domains and it's you, the reader living in that domain for a few days that results in a deeper understanding as opposed to the novel proclaiming this is what it is right and this is what is wrong.
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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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Novels function and the power of novels function because of their stories.
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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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I am not much of a researcher as a novelist I write mainly from experience.
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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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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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When I travel, I feel more like a nomad than a tourist.
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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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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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