Mohsin Hamid Short Quotes

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If differences can be hidden, perhaps they aren't differences at all.

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Time only moves in one direction. Remember that. Things always change.

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

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There's a reason prophets perform miracles; language lacks the power to describe faith.

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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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And with a last stardrop, a last circle, I arrive, and she's there, chemical wonder in her eyes.

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I was, in my own eyes, a veritable James Bond — only younger, darker, and possibly better paid.

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You're never rude,' she said, smiling, 'and I think it's good to be touchy sometimes. It means you care.

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I responded to the gravity of an invisible moon at my core, and I undertook journeys I had not expected to take.

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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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For me, writing a novel is like solving a puzzle. But I don't intend my novels as puzzles. I intend them as invitations to dance.

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You're a watchful guy. you know where that comes from?" I shook my head. "It comes from feeling out of place," he said. "Believe me. I know.

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Childbirth changed my perception of my wife. She was now the bloodied special forces soldier who had fought and risked everything for our family.

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We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains.

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Lived religion is a very different thing from strict textual analysis. Very few people of any faith live their lives as literalist interpretations of scripture.

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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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It is remarkable indeed how we human beings are capable of delighting in the mating call of a flower while we are surrounded by the charred carcasses of our fellow animals.

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It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we should not imagine that you Americans are all undercover assassins.

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One ought not to encourage beggars, and yes, you are right, it is far better to donate to charities that address the causes of poverty rather than to him, a creature who is merely its symptom.

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