Mohsin Hamid Quotes

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• Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.

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  Echoes, Empathy, Persons

  "This Week in Fiction: Mohsin Hamid" by Cressida Leyshon, www.newyorker.com. September 16, 2012.

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• If you have ever, sir, been through a breakup of a romantic relationship that involved great love, you will perhaps understand what I experienced. There is in such situations usually a moment of passion during which the unthinkable is said; this is followed by a sense of euphoria at finally being liberated; the world seems fresh as if seen for the first time then comes the inevitable period of doubt, the desperate and doomed backpedaling of regret; and only later, once emotions have receded, is one able to view with equanimity the journey through which one has passed.

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  Breakup, Regret, Love You

  Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.158, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we should not imagine that you Americans are all undercover assassins.

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  Obvious Things, Assassins, Imagine

  Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.183, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood.

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  Childhood, Migration, Stories

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Time only moves in one direction. Remember that. Things always change.

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  Moving, One Direction, Remember

  Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.96, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If we want things to be okay, we will have to make things okay.

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  Want, Okay, Ifs

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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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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  Love Is, Levels, Sometimes

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• Sometimes we are looking for somebody we can connect with on the basis of a shared past or a tradition or experience. And so finding that you're sitting next to someone very much like you in terms of where they come from is enormously reassuring.

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  Past, Next, Sitting

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I did not grow up in poverty. But I did grow up with a poor boy's sense of longing, in my case not for what my family had never had, but for what we had had and lost.

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  Growing Up, Boys, Poverty

  Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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  Views, Voice, Important

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• She was struggling against a current that brought her inside herself.

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  Struggle, Currents

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• The animosity between India and Pakistan is deeply unfortunate and dangerous, and it's something I've long campaigned to reduce. But right now, when there's artillery being exchanged in Kashmir - which is not for from here, either - and there are 100-ish nuclear weapons on each side of the border, there's never really been a case like this where two nuclear armed countries are happily shelling each other.

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  Country, Two, India And Pakistan

  "Love in the Time of Mass Migration". Interview With Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. March 4, 2017.

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• Literature helps us transcend ourselves.

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  Literature, Helping

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• I think there's a natural link between the fact that our self is a story that we make up and that we're drawn to stories. It resonates, in a way.

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  Thinking, Self, Links

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• We are all refugees from our childhoods. And so we turn, among other things, to stories. To write a story, to read a story, is to be a refugee from the state of refugees. Writers and readers seek a solution to the problem that time passes, that those who have gone are gone and those who will go, which is to say every one of us, will go. For there was a moment when anything was possible. And there will be a moment when nothing is possible. But in between we can create.

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  Writing, Childhood, Gone

  "How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia". Book by Mohsin Hamid, February 27, 2013.

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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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  Phones, Surfing, Internet

  "Love in the Time of Mass Migration". Interview with Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. March 4, 2017.

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• The ruins proclaim the building was beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Ruins, Building

  Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.144, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If we try to 'protect ourselves', our nation-states begin to look like prisons.

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  Trying, Looks, Prison

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• It is not surprising that most Pakistanis do not support America's bombardment of Afghanistan. The Afghans are neighbours on the brink of starvation and devastated by war. America has shown itself to be untrustworthy, a superpower that uses its values as a scabbard for its sword.

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  War, America, Support

  "Pakistan must not be abandoned" by Mohsin Hamid, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2001.

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• Contemporary culture in Pakistan, just like in America, is continuously hitting us with scary stuff. And so we are utterly anxious. I think that it's very important to resist that anxiety, to think of ways of resisting the constant inflow of negative feelings, not to become depoliticized as a result but to actually work actively to bring into being an optimistic future.

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  Optimistic, Thinking, America

  Source: www.npr.org

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

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  Miracle, Language, Reason

  Mohsin Hamid (2000). “Moth Smoke”, p.193, Penguin Books India

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• The notion of love as a potentially destructive and potentially redemptive human force is something that comes across in all my books.

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  Book, Force, Notion

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.

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  Past, Uncertain, Uncertain Future

  Mohsin Hamid (2012). “Moth Smoke”, p.9, Penguin

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• I think that right now, the global political crisis that we see all over the place has to do with virulent nostalgia. Everywhere, people are talking about taking us back to the good old days. Whether that's the "caliphate," or Britain before the EU, or "Make America Great Again." But, we can't go back and many people wouldn't want to go back even if we could.

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  Thinking, Talking, America

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• I actually feel that personal matters, like religion and spirituality, are things that I really discuss only with intimates. I think it's, in a way, like sexuality, something where it touches upon something very private.

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  Thinking, Matter, Way

  Source: www.npr.org

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