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Mohsin Hamid Quote: “Farmers and people who make a living from the land are finding it impossible to survive. So the first step is to get out of that place. Come to the city where there are opportunities.”

151. “Farmers and people who make a living from the land are finding it impossible to survive. So the first step is to get out of that place. Come to the city where there are opportunities.”

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Mohsin Hamid Quote: “Wings that had been growing for years stretched and pushed and I found myself flying.”

152. “Wings that had been growing for years stretched and pushed and I found myself flying.”

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

153. “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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Mohsin Hamid Quote: “Only in novels can we take another human being into our head and create something jointly.”

154. “Only in novels can we take another human being into our head and create something jointly.”

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Mohsin Hamid Quote: “Mumtaz has six moles. Two are black: behind her ear and on her hip, in the trough of the wave that crests at her pelvis. Three are the color of rust: knuckle, corner of jaw, behind knee. And one is red, fiery, at the base of her spine, where a tail might grow. I touch them and know them because I watch her like a man in a field stares up at the stars, and I love her constellation because it contains her story and our story, and I wonder which mole is the beginning and which is the end.”

155. “Mumtaz has six moles. Two are black: behind her ear and on her hip, in the trough of the wave that crests at her pelvis. Three are the color of rust: knuckle, corner of jaw, behind knee. And one is red, fiery, at the base of her spine, where a tail might grow. I touch them and know them because I watch her like a man in a field stares up at the stars, and I love her constellation because it contains her story and our story, and I wonder which mole is the beginning and which is the end.”

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Mohsin Hamid Quote: “Many boys, probably most boys, have a first love before they fall in love with a woman. It begins the moment two boys realize they’d die for one another, that each cares more for the other than he does for himself, and it lasts usually until a second love comes on the scene, because most hearts aren’t big enough to love more than one person like that.”

156. “Many boys, probably most boys, have a first love before they fall in love with a woman. It begins the moment two boys realize they’d die for one another, that each cares more for the other than he does for himself, and it lasts usually until a second love comes on the scene, because most hearts aren’t big enough to love more than one person like that.”

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Mohsin Hamid Quote: “I like the idea of an open, international London that thrives on attracting hard-working, talented people but has the confidence to tell them they must play by the same rules as everyone else.”

157. “I like the idea of an open, international London that thrives on attracting hard-working, talented people but has the confidence to tell them they must play by the same rules as everyone else.”

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Mohsin Hamid Quote: “Some things are too good. They make everything else worthless.”

158. “Some things are too good. They make everything else worthless.”

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Mohsin Hamid Quote: “But I must admit that my motives were no entirely noble; there were in me at least some elements of the anger and hurt vanity that characterize a spurned lover, and these unworthy sentiments helped me to keep my distance.”

159. “But I must admit that my motives were no entirely noble; there were in me at least some elements of the anger and hurt vanity that characterize a spurned lover, and these unworthy sentiments helped me to keep my distance.”

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Mohsin Hamid Quote: “The world seems concerned with Pakistan primarily as an actor in global attempts to combat terrorism.”

160. “The world seems concerned with Pakistan primarily as an actor in global attempts to combat terrorism.”

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Mohsin Hamid Quote: “Growing up in Pakistan in the 1980s, I lived in the shadow of a tyrannical state.”

161. “Growing up in Pakistan in the 1980s, I lived in the shadow of a tyrannical state.”

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Mohsin Hamid Quote: “Indeed, all books, each and every book ever written, could be said to be offered to the reader as a form of self-help.”

162. “Indeed, all books, each and every book ever written, could be said to be offered to the reader as a form of self-help.”

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Mohsin Hamid Quote: “A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.”

163. “A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.”

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Mohsin Hamid Quote: “They are pursued by a pair of hawk-faced men dressed in black and white: both forbidding, both hungry, but one tall and slender, the other short and fat. Two reflections of the same soul in the cosmic house of mirrors, or uncanny coincidence? It is impossible to say.”

164. “They are pursued by a pair of hawk-faced men dressed in black and white: both forbidding, both hungry, but one tall and slender, the other short and fat. Two reflections of the same soul in the cosmic house of mirrors, or uncanny coincidence? It is impossible to say.”

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Mohsin Hamid Quote: “I get in, and she turns the music down. It’s Nusrat, remixed and clubby, but damn good as always.”

165. “I get in, and she turns the music down. It’s Nusrat, remixed and clubby, but damn good as always.”

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Mohsin Hamid Quote: “You’re so beautiful,” her mother said as she was leaving. “You should get a gun.”

166. “You’re so beautiful,” her mother said as she was leaving. “You should get a gun.”

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Mohsin Hamid Quote: “Look, unless you’re writing one, a self-help book is an oxymoron.”

167. “Look, unless you’re writing one, a self-help book is an oxymoron.”

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Mohsin Hamid Quote: “If he stayed, it would not be for them – need not be for them – but for himself. And yet each day he did stay. Bored and tense, true, but he stayed. And he discovered thereby how badly he wanted to stay. That the impulse to live was in him stronger than he might have imagined, undiminished by his bleak circumstances.”

168. “If he stayed, it would not be for them – need not be for them – but for himself. And yet each day he did stay. Bored and tense, true, but he stayed. And he discovered thereby how badly he wanted to stay. That the impulse to live was in him stronger than he might have imagined, undiminished by his bleak circumstances.”

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Mohsin Hamid Quote: “A little paranoia crawls into my lap, purring loudly.”

169. “A little paranoia crawls into my lap, purring loudly.”

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Mohsin Hamid Quote: “I read it over and over again, until I notice the paper getting wet, the ink blurring into little flowers.”

170. “I read it over and over again, until I notice the paper getting wet, the ink blurring into little flowers.”

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Mohsin Hamid Quote: “One’s relationship to windows now changed in the city. A window was the border through which death was possibly most likely to come. Windows could not stop even the most flagging round of ammunition: any spot indoors with a view of the outside was a spot potentially in the crossfire. Moreover the pane of a window could itself become shrapnel so easily, shattered by a nearby blast, and everyone had heard of someone or other who had bled out after being lacerated by shards of flying glass.”

171. “One’s relationship to windows now changed in the city. A window was the border through which death was possibly most likely to come. Windows could not stop even the most flagging round of ammunition: any spot indoors with a view of the outside was a spot potentially in the crossfire. Moreover the pane of a window could itself become shrapnel so easily, shattered by a nearby blast, and everyone had heard of someone or other who had bled out after being lacerated by shards of flying glass.”

— Mohsin Hamid

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