I was 30 when 9/11 happened and I had lived exactly 15 years of life in America, so I was half American.… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
America's strength has made it a sort of Gulliver in world affairs: By wiggling its toes it can, often inadvertently, break the… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
It's very contrary to the notion of what America is to imagine that we can stop migration. — 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
Four thousand years ago, we, the people of the Indus River basin, had cities that were laid out on grids and boasted… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
It is not surprising that most Pakistanis do not support America's bombardment of Afghanistan. The Afghans are neighbours on the brink of… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Yes, Manila had its slums; one saw them on the drive from the airport: vast districts of men in dirty white undershirts… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
When people, particularly young people and especially young men, can't imagine themselves as heroes in narratives that they construct for themselves, they… — 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
In some contexts in Pakistan maybe a beard is negative. It depends. And in some contexts in America maybe a beard is… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Outside of America, there are many people, myself included, who champion values that, in some senses, could be thought of as traditionally… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“It seemed to me then - and to be honest, sir, seems to me still - that America was engaged only in… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
In America there are people advocating for trans rights and people like Vice President Pence, who is vehemently opposed. In Pakistan, too,… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
In Pakistan, many of the young people read novels because in the novels, not just my novels but the novels of many… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Contemporary culture in Pakistan, just like in America, is continuously hitting us with scary stuff. And so we are utterly anxious. I… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I think the beard helps offset - it's the only hairstyle I can really pull off. But I'm often clean-shaven. I think,… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“muscularity, made more pronounced by her gauntness, and the near-inanimate” — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“In this group, everyone was foreign, and so, in a sense, no one was.” — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“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 Image
When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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