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““Young men pray for different things, of course, but some young men pray to honor the goodness of the men who raised them,””

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…

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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…

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Americans need to educate themselves, from elementary school onward, about what their country has done abroad. And they need to play a more active…

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