Mohsin Hamid Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• Pakistan now is like a horror film franchise. You know, it's 'Friday the 13th, Episode 63: The Terrorist from Pakistan.' And each time we hear of Pakistan it's in that context.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Friday, Pakistan, Horror

  "Real Life Terror Reflects An Author's Imagination". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. May 14, 2010.

• For if there were a list of cosmic things that unite us, reader and writer, visible as it scrolled up into the distance, like the introduction to some epic science-fiction film, then shining brightly on that list would be the fact that we exist in a financial universe that is subject to massive gravitational pulls from states. States tug at us. States bend us. And, tirelessly, states seek to determine our orbits.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Distance, Epic, Shining

• Yes, Manila had its slums; one saw them on the drive from the airport: vast districts of men in dirty white undershirts lounging idly in front of auto-repair shops - like a poorer version of the 1950s America depicted in such films as Grease.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Dirty, Men, White

  Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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