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A beard is something that is almost like a mirror to the viewer. When someone sees you wearing a beard, they're seeing something in their own imagination because it's still me whether I'm bearded or not.

Mohsin Hamid

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Mohsin Hamid
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 23
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Literature helps us transcend ourselves.
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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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If your book is set in the plantation days of the slave-owning South and you write a little romance between two slave owners without acknowledging the system they live, that's a political gesture.
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The fruits of labor are delicious, but individually they’re not particularly fattening. So don’t share yours, and munch on those of others whenever you can.
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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 take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.
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Only in novels can we take another human being into our head and create something jointly.
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I'm not sure if guys are supposed to read Vanity Fair. I feel very metrosexual with it but am not sure it's in my comfort zone.
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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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How many big businesses don't resort to underhand means?
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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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I am not much of a researcher as a novelist I write mainly from experience.
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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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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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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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The ethnocultural connotations of the burkini ban are very strong. It's as absurd as mandating that women have to go topless on the beach. If I were a woman, I definitely would not want to wear a burkini or a headscarf. But it's not about what I want.
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If we try to 'protect ourselves', our nation-states begin to look like prisons.
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Capitalism is like the law of the jungle with a few rules. There isn't another system that works for our society but left unchecked, capitalism can have a dehumanising effect.
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What else is belief but direction?
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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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