'Which is stronger, politics or love?' is like asking, 'Which is stronger, exhaling or inhaling?' They are two sides of the same… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I think we need to radically reimagine the future - citizens, artist, writers, politicians, everyone. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I think writing is a very political act. I think that any writer who says it's not, is simply a writer who… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“[...] I stated to them among other things that no country inflicts death so readily upon the inhabitants of other countries, frightens… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Religion is not something I like to talk about publicly. One reason is the politics, but also I think spirituality is deeply… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Artists are in the imagining/ prototyping business. Society needs people to be out there thinking of what might be. That cannot be… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I think that right now, the global political crisis that we see all over the place has to do with virulent nostalgia.… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“You see, it is my passionately held belief that the right to possess property is at best a contingent one. When disparities… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I think we should be prepared, given environmental and political change for large-scale migration. If sea levels rise and 200 million people… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I think if you say that art and politics, or religion and politics, mustn't mix, don't mix, that is itself a political… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
If the dominant political expression that we're seeing right now is of nostalgia and we know that nostalgia won't really work out,… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Over time, our inescapable, systemic, fundamentally human impurity gives us the capacity to do what has not been done before: to make… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I think that things were getting really very bad a couple of years ago, and there's been a very significant change in… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“A common strand appeared to unite these conflicts, and that was the advancement of a small coterie’s concept of American interests in… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“But it wasn't the right season to lift off. Not yet. I sat in my apartment and looked out over the city,… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
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… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share
A beard is something that is almost like a mirror to the viewer. When someone sees you wearing a beard, they're seeing something in… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share
And also I think the rise of other, you could say, destinations for international jihadis mean that Pakistan isn't necessarily the place where people… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share
“I met her eyes, and for the first time I perceived that there was something broken behind them, like a tiny crack in a… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share
“muscularity, made more pronounced by her gauntness, and the near-inanimate” — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share
“It seemed to me then - and to be honest, sir, seems to me still - that America was engaged only in posturing. As… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share
When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share
When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as a television produces an image. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share
I think fiction allows you to inhabit new domains and it's you, the reader living in that domain for a few days that results… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share
“Often, during my stay in your country, such comparisons troubled me. In fact, they did more than trouble me: they made me resentful. Four… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share
Americans need to educate themselves, from elementary school onward, about what their country has done abroad. And they need to play a more active… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share
I'm not a representative of Pakistan; I'm just an example that Pakistanis are different from each other. I believe it in my fiction and… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share
“end of a couple is like a death, and the notion of death, of temporariness, can remind us of the value of things,” — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share
NYC doesn't have a big sign saying "You must love diversity and the rights of all people." And that's not what makes you love… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share
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