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“The notion of love as a potentially destructive and potentially redemptive human force is something that comes across in all my books.”

Mohsin Hamid

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“I met her eyes, and for the first time I perceived that there was something broken behind them, like a tiny crack in a…

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“muscularity, made more pronounced by her gauntness, and the near-inanimate”

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“In this group, everyone was foreign, and so, in a sense, no one was.”

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“It seemed to me then - and to be honest, sir, seems to me still - that America was engaged only in posturing. As a society, you were unwilling to reflect upon the shared pain that united you with those who attacked you. You retreated into myths of your own difference, assumptions of your own superiority. And you acted out…

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When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.

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When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as a television produces an image.

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I think fiction allows you to inhabit new domains and it's you, the reader living in that domain for a few days that results…

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“Often, during my stay in your country, such comparisons troubled me. In fact, they did more than trouble me: they made me resentful. 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 the ancestors of those who would invade and colonize America were illiterate…

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