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Cities Quotes by Mohsin Hamid
- 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…
- 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…
- I come from an enormous and very close family. I have over a dozen aunts and uncles in Pakistan, dozens of cousins. I have many…
- 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…
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- We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. — Jane Austen
- It was the hard work of our people, the freedom they enjoyed and their faith in God that built this country and… — Ronald Reagan
- On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam… — Diane Ackerman