"I did not grow up in poverty. But……" — Mohsin Hamid
"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 my family had never had, but for what we had had and lost."
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102 Quotes by Mohsin Hamid
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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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If differences can be hidden, perhaps they aren't differences at all.
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Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves.
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