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The Reluctant Fundamentalist

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How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

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Exit West

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The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Mohsin Hamid

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

Mohsin Hamid

Exit West

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Famous Mohsin Hamid Quotes

“when we migrate, we murder from our lives those we leave behind.”

Mohsin Hamid book Exit West

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“… status, as in any traditional, class-conscious society, declines more slowly than wealth.”

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“It's in being read that a book becomes a book, and in each of a million different readings a book become one of a million different books…”

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“Readers don’t work for writers. They work for themselves.”

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“To love is to enter into the inevitability of one day not being able to protect what is most valuable to you.”

Mohsin Hamid book Exit West

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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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Mohsin Hamid Quotes

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

Mohsin Hamid book The Reluctant Fundamentalist

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“She was struggling against a current that brought her inside herself.”

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“We are all migrants through time.”

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

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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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“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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“But when you read a book, what you see are black squiggles on pulped wood or, increasingly, dark pixels on a pale screen. To transform these icons into characters and events, you must imagine. And when you imagine, you create.”

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“She attracted people to her; she had presence, an uncommon. Documenting her effect on her habitat, a naturalist would likely have compared her to a lioness: strong, sleek, and invariably surrounded by her pride.”

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“Four thousand years ago, we, the people of the Indus River basin, had cities that were laid out on grids and boasted underground sewers, while the ancestors of those who would invade and colonize America were illiterate barbarians.”

Mohsin Hamid book The Reluctant Fundamentalist

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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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“The ruins proclaim the building was beautiful.”

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