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Only in novels can we take another human being into our head and create something jointly.

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Mohsin Hamid
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 23
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We think of the romance novel as a lesser form of literature, but I don't think that's true. Love is a very important aspect of human life and worth exploring.
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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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Literature helps us transcend ourselves.
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What did I think of Princeton? Well, the answer to that question requires a story. When I first arrived, I looked around me at the Gothic buildings - younger, I later learned, than many of the mosques of this city, but made through acid treatment and ingenious stone-masonry to look older.
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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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All over the world, the nativist perspective is being privileged over those who are more recent arrivals.
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Walking is very good for writers. There's something fundamentally useful about not talking to anybody, not looking at a screen, and being in nature - even if that nature is an urban environment.
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When we aren't collectively imagining hopeful futures, then the way things are going almost invariably seems negative and frightening.
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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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What else is belief but direction?
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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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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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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 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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I believe one can gauge a book's impact only after about 10 years.
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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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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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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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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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There's a reason prophets perform miracles language lacks the power to describe faith.
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