Mohsin Hamid Quotes - Page 8

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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.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Thinking, Spirituality, Reason

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• I have a funny relationship to language. When I came to California when I was three I spoke Urdu fluently and I didn't speak a word of English. Within a few months I lost all my Urdu and spoke only English and then I learned Urdu all over again when I was nine. Urdu is my first language but it's not as good as my English and it's sort of become my third language. English is my best language but was the second language I learned.

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  Funny Relationship, California, Three

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• The ban on the burkini, which is basically a wetsuit, seems particularly ridiculous.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Ridiculous, Bans, Seems

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• My mother has been to Mecca to perform her hajj; my dad hasn't. I come from a very liberal family, so even the people who are outwardly religious tend to subscribe to gender equality, the importance of open-mindedness, all that stuff. My family is generally nonprescriptive.

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  Mother, Religious, Dad

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• India to someone who lives in Lahore is like Queens to someone who lives in Lower Manhattan - it's not far away, and yet it doesn't exist.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Queens, India, Manhattan

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

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• We're being subject to incredible amounts of surveillance, the police are taking on draconian powers and violating our rights. I think this attempt to protect ourselves is ultimately going to founder because people don't like living inside prisons.

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  Thinking, Rights, People

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• Novels function and the power of novels function because of their stories.

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  Stories, Function, Novel

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Living in a place like Pakistan, very often you meet people who are migrating abroad. And sometimes you'll ask their parents, you know - you didn't try to stop them? Like, why didn't you say, don't go - I'll miss you? Stay with me. And, you know, people say, well, it's best for them. They have to go. And parents, you know, take on that sadness because they know it's better for their children if they leave.

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  Children, Sadness, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• We can open up our computers and Skype with someone, and we see them. It's like looking through a window. And we can surf the internet through our phones, and it's like our consciousness is far away. Or we can step through a airplane door and be in another continent a few hours away. So technology feels, to me, like the doors sort of already exist, at least emotionally.

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  Airplane, Technology, Doors

  Source: www.npr.org

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• We should be very skeptical of people who want to place limits on how we express ourselves.

  Mohsin Hamid

  People, Want, Limits

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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