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I think that people are going to move. They always have and that's going to continue. The question is, how are we going to deal with it?
Mohsin Hamid
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Mohsin Hamid
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 23
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All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood.
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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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Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
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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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If we try to 'protect ourselves', our nation-states begin to look like prisons.
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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 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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My earliest memories are of watching Star Trek and MASH while my parents barbecued chicken in the back yard. I was an American kid, through and through.
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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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When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.
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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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You're a watchful guy. you know where that comes from? I shook my head. It comes from feeling out of place, he said. Believe me. I know.
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The ban on the burkini, which is basically a wetsuit, seems particularly ridiculous.
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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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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 don't want to be a Michael Moore-style artist, which is not to disparage Michael Moore. But he seems rather unsuccessful at winning people over who don't already agree with him.
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For a combination of reasons, and despite evident fondness for American products and individuals, my impression is that most Pakistanis have extremely negative views of the US as a geopolitical player.
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