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There's a reason prophets perform miracles language lacks the power to describe faith.

Mohsin Hamid

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Mohsin Hamid
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 23
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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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I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in my senior year there, I took a long fiction workshop with Toni Morrison. I fell in love with it.
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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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I think massive migration is inevitable. As sea levels rise, as climate change happens, as fertile fields become arid, as wars are fought, people are going to move. They always have.
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You're never rude,' she said, smiling, 'and I think it's good to be touchy sometimes. It means you care.
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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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If we want things to be okay, we will have to make things okay.
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America's strength has made it a sort of Gulliver in world affairs: By wiggling its toes it can, often inadvertently, break the arm of a Lilliputian.
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Television has given Pakistan a truly open national forum for the first time in its history. Ideas are debated, leaders are assessed and criticised, and a nation of 170 million people is finally discovering, together, what it thinks.
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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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The ban on the burkini, which is basically a wetsuit, seems particularly ridiculous.
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Love is transient even on a very personal level. We lose everyone that we love. Sometimes we drift apart and sometimes we die.
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I think wars, climate change, all that stuff is going to move people. And so I wanted to say, What if the migration apocalypse occurs and it isn't an apocalypse at all? Maybe we will still find ways to be happy and for our children and grandchildren to thrive and the world to move on.
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Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.
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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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Only in novels can we take another human being into our head and create something jointly.
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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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What else is belief but direction?
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Literature helps us transcend ourselves.
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I think the most effective forms of critique are ones that establish a common ground for people to occupy, and then appeal to the best nature of people on that common ground.
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