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Mohsin Hamid is a Pakistani-British writer born in Karachi in 1971. His works often explore themes of globalization, identity, and modernity. Hamid's debut novel, 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist,' published in 2001, received widespread acclaim and earned him numerous awards. His other notable works include 'How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia' and 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist'.

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

Humans Human Beings Novel

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“When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as a television produces an image.”

Humans Seems Human Beings Produce Television Machines Protagonists

Book:Discontent and its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London

Source: Discontent and its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London

“There really still is a deep wound, you know, in the collective psyche of Pakistan. And the violence has left enormous human and emotional and psychic damage. That's not going to go away. But that said, I think I'm cautiously optimistic that we're looking at a better future.”

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“All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood.”

Humans Stories Childhood Refugee Migration

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“The notion of love as a potentially destructive and potentially redemptive human force is something that comes across in all my books.”

Humans Book Force Notion Destructive

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“We think of the romance novel as a lesser form of literature, but I don't think that's true. Love is a very important aspect of human life and worth exploring.”

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“I think the idea of migration through time is very important because every human being does that and it unites us with people who migrate through geography.”

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“Transience is what is normal. The problem is that we are busily trying to create political structures and cultural expressions that deny that and to deny that is to deny the basic idea of what is human.”

Trying Humans Ideas Problem Political Expression Normal Structure Deny Transience

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“We're all united in this, that every human being migrates through time, that the place we grew up in in our childhood is gone when we're in our 50s and 60s and 70s.”

Humans Human Beings United Gone Childhood Grew Grew Up Our Children Rough Times Migrate

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“I think that we live in a world - and this is something which living in Pakistan, perhaps, has taught me - and, you know, we live in a world where there is a constant feed from social media, the news, etc., of things that can scare us. And we become so anxious because human beings are meant - are designed to be sensitized to dangerous stuff.”

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“It is remarkable indeed how we human beings are capable of delighting in the mating call of a flower while we are surrounded by the charred carcasses of our fellow animals.”

Humans Human Beings Animal Flower Capable Fellows Remarkable Mating

Book:The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Source: The Reluctant Fundamentalist

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Born: 1971
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