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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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My grandparents used to pray five times a day, but they were quiet about their own thing. Completely liberal day by day; my grandmother was a social... →

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Part of the reason people abroad resent the United States is something Americans can do very little about: envy. The richest, most powerful country... →

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I don't want to be a Michael Moore-style artist, which is not to disparage Michael Moore. But he seems rather unsuccessful at winning people over... →

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I think the most effective forms of critique are ones that establish a common ground for people to occupy, and then appeal to the best nature of... →

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I'm not a representative of Pakistan; I'm just an example that Pakistanis are different from each other. I believe it in my fiction and I... →

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I come from an enormous and very close family. I have over a dozen aunts and uncles in Pakistan, dozens of cousins. I have many close friends. I have... →

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I think if you say that art and politics, or religion and politics, mustn't mix, don't mix, that is itself a political statement. Even if you... →

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It is not surprising that most Pakistanis do not support America's bombardment of Afghanistan. The Afghans are neighbours on the brink of... →

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For me, writing a novel is more like digging a well than climbing a mountain - some heroic thing where I set out to conquer. I just sit quietly for a... →

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I think there's a growing courage among the younger generation of American writers. Because of the more superficial treatment of characters... →

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In Sufi terms, there are two very interesting notions of transcendence. One is to gaze out at the universe and to comprehend that what you see out... →

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In writing literary fiction, you are trying to help yourself. And readers are going to literary fiction not just to be entertained, but because they... →

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Most Muslims do not 'choose' Islam in the way that they choose to become doctors or lawyers, nor even in the way that they choose to become... →

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