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One Quotes by Mohsin Hamid
- It is the effect of scarcity; one’s rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper.
- 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…
- 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…
- I believe one can gauge a book's impact only after about 10 years.
- Islamophobia, in all its guises, seeks to minimise the importance of the individual and maximise the importance of the group. Yet our instinctive stance ought…
- Like many of my friends in the Pakistani diaspora - and many of my friends in Pakistan itself, for that matter - I have sometimes…
- The mountain trembled like an earthquake. Dust flew into the sky. And the rock turned dark red, like the color of blood'. 'How would you…
- If you have ever, sir, been through a breakup of a romantic relationship that involved great love, you will perhaps understand what I experienced. There…
- Time only moves in one direction. Remember that. Things always change.
- I push against the tree and run away, stumbling, the unreal night playing with me, gravity pulling from below, behind, above, making me fall. And…
- We are all refugees from our childhoods. And so we turn, among other things, to stories. To write a story, to read a story, is…
- It's in being read that a book becomes a book, and in each of a million different readings a book become one of a million…
- In Sufi terms, there are two very interesting notions of transcendence. One is to gaze out at the universe and to comprehend that what you…
- I am sometimes asked to name my favourite books. The list changes, depending on my mood, the year, tricks played by memory. I might mention…
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare