Knows Quotes by Mohsin Hamid

11 Knows quotes by Mohsin Hamid

Hamid’s modern prose touches on perception and insight in these eleven short excerpts, offering a quick feel for his nuanced take on awareness.

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I'm often surprised that, you know, you encounter all types of humanity. And very often, there are some very decent people who…

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In some contexts in Pakistan maybe a beard is negative. It depends. And in some contexts in America maybe a beard is…

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There really still is a deep wound, you know, in the collective psyche of Pakistan. And the violence has left enormous human…

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We keep the negative stuff because it's the negative stuff that's going to, you know, potentially kill us. That fin in the…

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I think the beard helps offset - it's the only hairstyle I can really pull off. But I'm often clean-shaven. I think,…

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I think that we live in a world - and this is something which living in Pakistan, perhaps, has taught me -…

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In Pakistan, many of the young people read novels because in the novels, not just my novels but the novels of many…

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You know, you get a bad review as a writer, you remember it for 10 years. You get a hundred good reviews,…

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You know, very often, if you look at the kinds of communications that they're getting in an ISIS recruiting video, the videos…

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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…

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If the dominant political expression that we're seeing right now is of nostalgia and we know that nostalgia won't really work out,…

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“I met her eyes, and for the first time I perceived that there was something broken behind them, like a tiny crack in a…

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“muscularity, made more pronounced by her gauntness, and the near-inanimate”

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“In this group, everyone was foreign, and so, in a sense, no one was.”

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“It seemed to me then - and to be honest, sir, seems to me still - that America was engaged only in posturing. As…

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When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.

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When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as a television produces an image.

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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…

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“Often, during my stay in your country, such comparisons troubled me. In fact, they did more than trouble me: they made me resentful. Four…

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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…

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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…

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“end of a couple is like a death, and the notion of death, of temporariness, can remind us of the value of things,”

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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…

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