Mohsin Hamid Quotes About Memories

Quotes about: Memories

• I commit her to memory. When I'm alone, I feel a strange yearning, the hunger of a man fasting not because he believes but because he's ashamed. Not the cleansing hunger of the devout, but the feverish hunger of the hypocrite. I let her go every evening only because there's nothing I can do to stop her.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Memories, Believe, Hypocrite

  Mohsin Hamid (2000). “Moth Smoke”, p.203, Penguin Books India

• Some of my relatives held on to imagined memories the way homeless people hold onto lottery tickets. Nostalgia was their crack cocaine, if you will, and my childhood was littered with the consequences of their addiction : unserviceable debts, squabbles over inheritances, the odd alcoholic or suicide.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Suicide, Memories, People

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

• 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.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Stars, Memories, Kids

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