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When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.

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Mohsin Hamid
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 23
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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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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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Why the brevity? Because I'd rather people read my book twice than only half-way through
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The anger is useful too because when things about the world upset you, that is really a fertile feeling to channel into fiction and to put out into books.
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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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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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When I travel, I feel more like a nomad than a tourist.
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My mother has been to Mecca to perform her hajj my dad hasn't. I come from a very liberal family, so even the people who are outwardly religious tend to subscribe to gender equality, the importance of open-mindedness, all that stuff. My family is generally nonprescriptive.
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I think there's really strong social stratification in South Asia.
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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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Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.
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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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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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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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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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