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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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Mohsin Hamid
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 23
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When terrorism strikes, divisive anger is a natural response.
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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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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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Writing a novel is like an amusement park or a museum or a city. You go into that place and you have certain experiences and those experiences, hopefully, have some impact on you.
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There's a reason prophets perform miracles language lacks the power to describe faith.
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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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When I travel, I feel more like a nomad than a tourist.
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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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So in many ways, the bombing at the end of this year and the terrorist attack of last year in Peshawar have bookended both those years in a very unfortunate way. But at a bigger picture since, the impression in Pakistan is that things are actually improving on the terrorism front quite dramatically.
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When people talk about the death of the novel, they are speaking of the need for the birth of something different.
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The paralysis that we have right now when we think about migration is partly because we can't imagine what the world would look like in the future. So I think it's important for writers and artists to try to imagine that.
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Islamophobia, in all its guises, seeks to minimise the importance of the individual and maximise the importance of the group. Yet our instinctive stance ought to be one of suspicion towards such endeavours. For individuals are undeniably real. Groups, on the other hand, are assertions of opinion.
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I think I've always been drawn to the second person. When I was growing up and playing with my friends, the usual way we interacted with imaginary worlds was as characters: a bench was 'your' boat, leaves on a lawn were the fins of sharks out to get 'you.'
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Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.
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I would have bet money that Britain would not vote to leave the EU, and I would have been wrong. I would have bet money that Trump would not have been the Republican nominee, and I would have been wrong and I certainly would have bet money that he wouldn't win the election.
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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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