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Pakistan hasn't been cast in the role of ... interesting cultural place or, you know, land of great comedians.
— Mohsin Hamid
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
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
There's a reason prophets perform miracles; language lacks the power to describe faith.
— 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
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[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
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
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
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
Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.
— Mohsin Hamid
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
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
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
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
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
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
Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.
— Mohsin Hamid
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
I don't know if I'm truly at home in any language.
— Mohsin Hamid
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
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
... and time is the stuff of which a self is made.
— 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
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