Mohsin Hamid Quotes

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• It is the effect of scarcity; one’s rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper.
• The gun of the father is always the undoing of the son.
• Many boys, probably most boys, have a first love before they fall in love with a woman. It begins the moment two boys realize they'd…
• What else is belief but direction?
• If differences can be hidden, perhaps they aren't differences at all.
• One ought not to encourage beggars, and yes, you are right, it is far better to donate to charities that address the causes of poverty…
• Why the brevity? Because I'd rather people read my book twice than only half-way through
• Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves.
• 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…
• Lahore, the second largest city of Pakistan, ancient capital of the Punjab, home to nearly as many people as New York, layered like a sedimentary…
• 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…
• What did I think of Princeton? Well, the answer to that question requires a story. When I first arrived, I looked around me at the…
• 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.
• Time is our most precious currency. So it's significant that we are being encouraged, wherever possible, to think of our attention not as expenditure but…
• I did not grow up in poverty. But I did grow up with a poor boy's sense of longing, in my case not for what…
• Childbirth changed my perception of my wife. She was now the bloodied special forces soldier who had fought and risked everything for our family.
• Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
• A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.
• America's strength has made it a sort of Gulliver in world affairs: By wiggling its toes it can, often inadvertently, break the arm of a…
• As a writer, I am constantly aware that I take my life in my hands with everything I do and say. It's just a fact…

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