Mohsin Hamid Quotes - Page 6

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• Only in novels can we take another human being into our head and create something jointly.

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  Novel, Humans, Human Beings

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• In a subway car, my skin would typically fall in the middle of the color spectrum. On street corners, tourists would ask me for directions. I was, in four and a half years, never an American; I was immediately a New Yorker.

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  Fall, Color, Years

  Mohsin Hamid (2008). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.27, Penguin UK

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• You're never rude,' she said, smiling, 'and I think it's good to be touchy sometimes. It means you care.

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  Mean, Thinking, Rude

  Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is the effect of scarcity; one’s rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper.

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  Scarcity, Thirst, Propriety

  Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• How many big businesses don't resort to underhand means?

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  Mean, Bigs, Resorts

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• I am a strong believer in the intertwined nature of the personal and the political; I think they move together.

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  Strong, Moving, Thinking

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• I don't know if I'm truly at home in any language.

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  Home, Language, Ifs

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• Writing a novel is like an amusement park or a museum or a city. You go into that place and you have certain experiences and those experiences, hopefully, have some impact on you.

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  Writing, Museums, Cities

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• Four thousand years ago, we, the people of the Indus River basin, had cities that were laid out on grids and boasted underground sewers, while the ancestors of those who would invade and colonize America were illiterate barbarians.

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  Years, Cities, Rivers

  Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.

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  Writing, Novelists, Researchers

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• Islamophobia, in all its guises, seeks to minimise the importance of the individual and maximise the importance of the group. Yet our instinctive stance ought to be one of suspicion towards such endeavours. For individuals are undeniably real. Groups, on the other hand, are assertions of opinion.

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  Real, Hands, Groups

  "Islam is not a monolith" by Mohsin Hamid, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2013.

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• I don't think the function of writing, at least for me as a fiction writer, is to say to people, "Here's the answer." It's not an op-ed.

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  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• The mountain trembled like an earthquake. Dust flew into the sky. And the rock turned dark red, like the color of blood'. 'How would you know?' Asks Sindhi cap. 'You only have a black and white television'. 'But it's a very good one. You can almost see colours.

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  Dark, Black And White, Sky

  Mohsin Hamid (2000). “Moth Smoke”, p.133, Penguin Books India

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• I think the most effective forms of critique are ones that establish a common ground for people to occupy, and then appeal to the best nature of people on that common ground.

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  Thinking, People, Common

  "Occupational hazards" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. August 11, 2007.

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• Americans need to educate themselves, from elementary school onward, about what their country has done abroad. And they need to play a more active role in ensuring that what the United States does abroad is not merely in keeping with a foreign policy elite's sense of realpolitik but also with the American public's own sense of American values.

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  Country, School, Play

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• If my daughter wanted to wear a headscarf and dress in a religiously conservative way, I would be heartbroken. But if she were to decide to do that and she were to live in a place where people said she couldn't do that, I would be entirely committed to her right to do so.

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  Heartbroken, Daughter, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• As a child I read all kinds of stuff, whether it was 'Asterix and Obelix' and 'Tin Tin' comic books, or 'Lord of the Rings,' or Frank Herbert's sci-fi. Or 'The Wind in the Willows.' Or 'Charlotte's Web.'

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  Children, Book, Wind

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• When I travel, I feel more like a nomad than a tourist.

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  Tourists, Nomad, Feels

  "Mohsin Hamid on writing 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist'". www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2011.

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• I think there's really strong social stratification in South Asia.

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  Strong, Thinking, Asia

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

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  People, Want, Limits

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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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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  Fruit, Share, Fattening

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• For a combination of reasons, and despite evident fondness for American products and individuals, my impression is that most Pakistanis have extremely negative views of the US as a geopolitical player.

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  Player, Views, Negative

  "Pakistan is at last finding its voice. The US would be wise not to gag it" by Mohsin Hamid, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2008.

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• In a world of intrusive technology, we must engage in a kind of struggle if we wish to sustain moments of solitude. E-reading opens the door to distraction. It invites connectivity and clicking and purchasing. The closed network of a printed book, on the other hand, seems to offer greater serenity. It harks back to a pre-jacked-in age. Cloth, paper, ink: For these read helmet, cuirass, shield. They afford a degree of protection and make possible a less intermediated, less fractured experience. They guard our aloneness. That is why I love them, and why I read printed books still.

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  Love, Book, Reading

  Mohsin Hamid (2014). “Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York and London”, p.81, Penguin UK

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• Why the brevity? Because I'd rather people read my book twice than only half-way through

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  Book, People, Half

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• My aunt used to say, "It's between me and my god; it's got nothing to do with you." It was a good enough answer for me as a snot-nosed college kid angling for a religious debate, and I still think it's a good way of putting it.

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  Religious, Kids, Aunt

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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