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83 quotes by Mohsin Hamid

Website www.mohsinhamid.com Mohsin Hamid (Urdu: محسن حامد ; born 1971) is a Pakistani writer. His novels are Moth Smoke (2000), The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007), and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (2013).
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Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.

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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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When I travel, I feel more like a nomad than a tourist.

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When terrorism strikes, divisive anger is a natural response.

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Love places someone else in the centre of your being and your own self is blurred.

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There is a huge sense of loneliness as people leave villages and move to cities. It's hard to find that human connection as you move away from... →

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Pakistan now is like a horror film franchise. You know, it's 'Friday the 13th, Episode 63: The Terrorist from Pakistan.' And each time we... →

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I think I've always been drawn to the second person. When I was growing up and playing with my friends, the usual way we interacted with... →

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Oftentimes I deliberately put ambiguity into my books so that... the reader is left with an echo of: 'How much of this was from me?'

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Like many kids, I used to pretend all sorts of things. I would climb into a tree and imagine that I was on an island, that the grass below we was an... →

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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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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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Chance plays a powerful role in every life - our brains and personalities are just chemical soup, after all; a few drops here or there matter... →

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