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You are a door to an existence she does not desire, but even if the room beyond is repugnant, that door has won a portion of her affection. — Mohsin Hamid

I don't think Osama is a Muslim. I don't think Osama is a human being. — Hamid Karzai

Pakistan hasn't been cast in the role of ... interesting cultural place or, you know, land of great comedians. — Mohsin Hamid

As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole. — Hamid Karzai

I am a strong believer in the intertwined nature of the personal and the political; I think they move together. — Mohsin Hamid

The world will not fail if Pakistan fails, but the world will be healthier if Pakistan is healthy. — Mohsin Hamid

Darashikoh was inside, for all the world a tastefully dressed patron of the shop, but he carried death in his undershorts and hunger in his heart. — Mohsin Hamid

If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it. — Hamid Karzai

I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity. — Mohsin Hamid

Our hearts are like polished mirrors. We need to wipe it clean regularly of the dust that gathers on it. — Norhafsah Hamid

No matter how far you go into the deep, you are always on the brink of another abyss. — Hamid Ismailov

Some things are too good. They make everything else worthless. — Mohsin Hamid

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

She was struggling against a current that brought her inside herself. — Mohsin Hamid

No peace will arrive unless the U.S. or Pakistan want it. — Hamid Karzai

When people talk about the death of the novel, they are speaking of the need for the birth of something different. — Mohsin Hamid

If it is terrorism, if it is war on terror, then the Afghan people will join you on terror. — Hamid Karzai

[O]ver sufficiently long a term, as everyone knows, there is nothing that does not have as its consequence death. — Mohsin Hamid

To give a thing to one who is not fit for it and not to give a thing to one who is fit for it is equally oppression. — Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali

They try to resist change. Power comes from becoming change. — Mohsin Hamid

Hazrat Abu Darda'a said: He who thinks that to go at dawn in search of knowledge is not jihad is deficient in intellect. — Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali

I think there's really strong social stratification in South Asia. — Mohsin Hamid

Glaring is something we men of Lahore take seriously ... — Mohsin Hamid

'Which is stronger, politics or love?' is like asking, 'Which is stronger, exhaling or inhaling?' They are two sides of the same thing. — Mohsin Hamid

when we migrate, we murder from our lives those we leave behind. — Mohsin Hamid

Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality. — Mohsin Hamid

Islamophobia, in all its guises, seeks to minimize the importance of the individual and maximize the importance of the group. — Mohsin Hamid

Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics. — Mohsin Hamid

I was 30 when 9/11 happened and I had lived exactly 15 years of life in America, so I was half American. I was a full-fledged New Yorker. — Mohsin Hamid

We are all migrants through time. — Mohsin Hamid

Our civilizations do not cause us to clash. No, our clashing allows us to pretend we belong to civilizations. — Mohsin Hamid

She had bumped me out of the center of my world. I'd become a baby person, and it felt good, better than what had come before. — Mohsin Hamid

There is no pride in a masculinst history that deprives half of humanity a pride of place, the dignity of who and what they are. — Hamid Dabashi

Desire makes slaves out of kings, while patience makes kings out of slaves. — Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali

I'm interested in things women do that aren't spoken about. Manto's stories let me breathe. They make me feel like less of a monster. — Mohsin Hamid

Why the brevity? Because I'd rather people read my book twice than only half-way through — Mohsin Hamid

If your sense of self is destabilised, to imagine being another becomes pretty easy. — Mohsin Hamid

Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity. — Mohsin Hamid

The planet belongs to all being; all beings are responsible. We all have to do whatever we can do no matter how small it is; nothing is too small. — Hamid Drake

Novels are make-believe and play for adults. — Mohsin Hamid

The gun of the father is always the undoing of the son. — Mohsin Hamid

The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives. — Hamid Karzai

A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think. — Mohsin Hamid

He whispers a benediction and breathes it into the air, spreading his hope for you with a contraction of the lungs. — Mohsin Hamid

The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims. Humiliation of the holy book represents the humiliation of our people. — Hamid Karzai

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

When God keeps away certain people from you, it may be that the person is not good for you. — Norhafsah Hamid

Some men drink the blood of other men, all I drink is wine. — Mohsin Hamid

Afghanistan will be a brother of Pakistan. Afghanistan will never betray a brother — Hamid Karzai

I must not expect everyone to act or think like I do as God has created each of us differently. — Norhafsah Hamid

When I'm writing well, I feel happy. And when I go too long without writing, I begin to implode. — Mohsin Hamid

Terrorism as a force is gone. As individuals they are all around and we will continue to look for them. — Hamid Karzai

In this group, everyone was foreign, and so, in a sense, no one was. — Mohsin Hamid

We only have one chance in this life, so don't waste it on trivial people and matters. — Norhafsah Hamid

And how can someone be described as flawless [or protector] who is not freed from his lower self — Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali

Do not have expectations. We humans are created imperfect, which means that we have flaws — Norhafsah Hamid

You need to decide for yourself whether you want to be a rare jewel or a common flower — Norhafsah Hamid

The majority of the Afghan people support a strategic partnership with the United States. — Hamid Karzai

What distinguishes the "war on terror" is that it is a war against a concept, not a nation. And the enemy concept, it seems to me, is pluralism. — Mohsin Hamid

There comes a time when to be uncompromising is the only realistic course. — Hamid Algar

Where liberty dies, evil grows. — Hamid Karzai

the end of a couple is like a death, and the notion of death, of temporariness, can remind us of the value of things, — Mohsin Hamid

ambitious cleric position: "Religion makes us all equal; only I decide what religion says. — Mohsin Hamid

As a writer, I am constantly aware that I take my life in my hands with everything I do and say. It's just a fact of life. For me it always has been. — Mohsin Hamid

Time' is actually the best gift, given to us by our Creator. — Norhafsah Hamid

Children are excellent judges of character, you know — Mohsin Hamid

I felt suddenly very young - or perhaps I felt my age. — Mohsin Hamid

I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience. — Mohsin Hamid

Being a writer is not the point. Writing is. — Mohsin Hamid

We as the Afghan people and government are willing to help Pakistan work for peace in Afghanistan and work for peace in Pakistan, together. — Hamid Karzai

The alliance between the US and Pakistan is thus predominantly between the US and the Pakistani military. — Mohsin Hamid

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?' — Mohsin Hamid

They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land. — Hamid Karzai

Check your heart and make sure your intention steers you in the right direction. — Norhafsah Hamid

I don't know if I'm truly at home in any language. — Mohsin Hamid

I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no. — Hamid Karzai

I hope (the United States) will change and they will now focus entirely on helping and building a stronger, better Afghanistan. — Hamid Karzai

As the country now turns a new leaf, our ambition is to give hope to each and every Afghan. — Hamid Karzai

Being a husband or a wife, is already a huge responsibility to shoulder, without adding in the expectations. — Norhafsah Hamid

Maximum return was the maxim to which we returned. — Mohsin Hamid

The privileged liberal position: There should be equal rights for all; I should not have to share my riches with the poor. — Mohsin Hamid

A politician is a politician whether he's wearing a suit or a funny hat. — Reza Aslan

Information is key at these things: no one wants to be caught holding social stock that's about to crash. — Mohsin Hamid

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

The ruins proclaim the building was beautiful. — Mohsin Hamid

The fight, this war, this fight against the remnants of terrorism will go on for some time. — Hamid Karzai

But his dislike was so obvious, so intimate, that it got under my skin. — Mohsin Hamid

... and time is the stuff of which a self is made. — Mohsin Hamid

When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain. — Mohsin Hamid

The only thing that is holding us back from repenting is ourselves. There isn't any 'buts' actually. — Norhafsah Hamid

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. — Mohsin Hamid

I think there's a natural link between the fact that our self is a story that we make up and that we're drawn to stories. It resonates, in a way. — Mohsin Hamid

War would soon erode the facade of their building as though it had accelerated time itself, a day's toll outpacing that of a decade. — Mohsin Hamid

How many big businesses don't resort to underhand means? — Mohsin Hamid

Hamid Gul is an actor who is definitely not in our good books. Hamid Gul is somebody who was never appreciated by our government. — Asif Ali Zardari

Trials or little tests contain lessons to be learnt. — Norhafsah Hamid

No one can run away from being tested so don't even bother trying. — Norhafsah Hamid

PARENTS FIRST MET they were — Mohsin Hamid

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

The end of the world can be cozy at times. — Mohsin Hamid