"When people talk about the death of the……" — Mohsin Hamid
"When people talk about the death of the novel, they are speaking of the need for the birth of something different."
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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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More Birth Quotes
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The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason…
— David Attenborough
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Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
— Marcus Aurelius
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As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
— Francis Bacon
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as…
— Francis Bacon
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They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should…
— Ginger Baker
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There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of…
— James A. Baldwin
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When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I…
— Joyce Banda
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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and…
— Amelia Barr
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Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.
— Roseanne Barr
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The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from…
— Charles Baudelaire
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They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
— Samuel Beckett
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Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.
— Max Beerbohm
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