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Only in novels can we take another human being into our head and create something jointly.
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Pakistan hasn't been cast in the role of ... interesting cultural place or, you know, land of great comedians.
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What else is belief but direction?
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I am a strong believer in the intertwined nature of the personal and the political; I think they move together.
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The world will not fail if Pakistan fails, but the world will be healthier if Pakistan is healthy.
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I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.
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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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There's a reason prophets perform miracles; language lacks the power to describe faith.
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When people talk about the death of the novel, they are speaking of the need for the birth of something different.
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[O]ver sufficiently long a term, as everyone knows, there is nothing that does not have as its consequence death.
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I'm not sure if guys are supposed to read Vanity Fair. I feel very metrosexual with it but am not sure it's in my comfort zone.
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They try to resist change. Power comes from becoming change.
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Glaring is something we men of Lahore take seriously ...
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'Which is stronger, politics or love?' is like asking, 'Which is stronger, exhaling or inhaling?' They are two sides of the same thing.
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Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality.
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Islamophobia, in all its guises, seeks to minimize the importance of the individual and maximize the importance of the group.
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We are all migrants through time.
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Our civilizations do not cause us to clash. No, our clashing allows us to pretend we belong to civilizations.
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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.
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America is our enemy; America should give us more aid.
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No believer is a bad believer.
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The world seems concerned with Pakistan primarily as an actor in global attempts to combat terrorism.
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And so their memories took on potential, which is of course how our greatest nostalgias are born.
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Young men pray for different things, of course, but some young men pray to honor the goodness of the men who raised them,
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And with a last stardrop, a last circle, I arrive, and she's there, chemical wonder in her eyes.
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stories of evil can be projected on them with as little difficulty as stories of good.
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Literature helps us transcend ourselves.
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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.
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Status, as in any traditional, class-conscious society, declines more slowly than wealth.
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I do not think that less is necessarily more. But I don't think that more is necessarily more either. - Mohsin Hamid
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most powerful military in the world is sent to do a task best accomplished by schoolteachers, police forces, persuasion, and time.
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flying robots from an alien power regularly strike down from the skies and kill Pakistani citizens.
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He was a man who discovered love through his penis.
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Novel writing is solitary work.
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Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves.
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The ruins proclaim the building was beautiful.
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I felt suddenly very young - or perhaps I felt my age.
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Information is key at these things: no one wants to be caught holding social stock that's about to crash.
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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.
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The privileged liberal position: There should be equal rights for all; I should not have to share my riches with the poor.
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Maximum return was the maxim to which we returned.
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Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.
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The end of the world can be cozy at times.
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How many big businesses don't resort to underhand means?
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I don't know if I'm truly at home in any language.
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When I'm writing well, I feel happy. And when I go too long without writing, I begin to implode.
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Some men drink the blood of other men, all I drink is wine.
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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.
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Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.
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Why the brevity? Because I'd rather people read my book twice than only half-way through
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Children are excellent judges of character, you know
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... and time is the stuff of which a self is made.
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ambitious cleric position: "Religion makes us all equal; only I decide what religion says.
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the end of a couple is like a death, and the notion of death, of temporariness, can remind us of the value of things,
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A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.
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Novels are make-believe and play for adults.
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The gun of the father is always the undoing of the son.
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He whispers a benediction and breathes it into the air, spreading his hope for you with a contraction of the lungs.
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It is the effect of scarcity; one's rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper.
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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.
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I was, in my own eyes, a veritable James Bond - only younger, darker, and possibly better paid.
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PARENTS FIRST MET they were
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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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