"America's strength has made it a sort of……" — Mohsin Hamid
"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 Lilliputian."
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102 Quotes by Mohsin Hamid
Mohsin Hamid has 102 quotes on this site.
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It is the effect of scarcity; one’s rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper.
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The gun of the father is always the undoing of the son.
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Many boys, probably most boys, have a first love before they fall in love with a woman. It begins the…
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What else is belief but direction?
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If differences can be hidden, perhaps they aren't differences at all.
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One ought not to encourage beggars, and yes, you are right, it is far better to donate to charities that…
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Why the brevity? Because I'd rather people read my book twice than only half-way through
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Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves.
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In a world of intrusive technology, we must engage in a kind of struggle if we wish to sustain moments…
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Lahore, the second largest city of Pakistan, ancient capital of the Punjab, home to nearly as many people as New…
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For if there were a list of cosmic things that unite us, reader and writer, visible as it scrolled up…
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What did I think of Princeton? Well, the answer to that question requires a story. When I first arrived, I…
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The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation…
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The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of…
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect…
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all…
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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one…
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I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
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Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they…
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