Kamila Shamsie: Doing

Kamila Shamsie is Pakistani writer. Explore interesting quotes on doing.

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“They adore you beacause they think you offer up your friendship and ask for nothing in return. But that's not true-' He took a deep breath. 'You do ask for something. You ask that we never expect you to need us.”

Kamila Shamsie

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“Why do you have to be so annoying sometimes?"
"Cant help it. It's the company I keep.”

Kamila Shamsie

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“So many things you promise yourself you won't get used to, and then you do.”

Kamila Shamsie book Burnt Shadows

Source: Burnt Shadows

“How do you eat your roots?”

Kamila Shamsie

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“The thing you know in the abstract, but which you have to see, is the vastness of the place and how little relationship one side of it has to another. Mostly, the landscape is just unbelievably beautiful. You do a lot of looking and not that much thinking.”

Kamila Shamsie

Source: On living and travelling throughout the United States in “THE SRB INTERVIEW: Kamila Shamsie” https://www.scottishreviewofbooks.org/2018/08/the-srb-interview-kamila-shamsie/ in The Scottish Review of Books (2018 Aug 11)