Quotes
Authors
Mohsin Hamid

"If you have ever, sir, been through a breakup of a romantic relationship that involved great love, you will perhaps understand what I experienced. There is in such situations usually a moment of passion during which the unthinkable is said; this is followed by a sense of euphoria at finally being liberated; the world seems fresh as if seen for the first time then comes the inevitable period of doubt, the desperate and doomed backpedaling of regret; and only later, once emotions have receded, is one able to view with equanimity the journey through which one has passed."

Source : Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.158, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Mohsin Hamid

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“Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.”
“Everytime I go to Vegas, I seem to incur some kind of fine.”
“Any system that sees aesthetics as irrelevant, that separates the artist from his product, that fragments the work of the individual, or creates by committee, or makes mincemeat of the creative process will, in the long run, diminish not only the product but the maker as well.”
“When Viv Richards retired I thought it was end of entertainment. But then came Sehwag,the King of entertainment!”
“The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records.”
“I was democratically elected leader of our party for a new kind of politics by 60% of Labour members and supporters, and I will not betray them by resigning. Today's vote on Brexit has no constitutional legitimacy.”

Source : " Labour MPs prepare for leadership contest after Corbyn loses confidence vote" by Anushka Asthana, Rajeev Syal, Jessica Elgot, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2016.
“The heat is searing and superb. The paddocks surrounding the town are bleached blond. The distant ring-barked gums, mile after mile, wriggle in the heat-waves, and seem to melt like the bristles of a melting hairbrush. The hills turn powder-blue and gauzy. Mirages resembling pools of mica and shallows of crystal water appear at the far ends of streets and roads. Punctually at eleven every burning morning, the cicadas begin to drill the air, to drill themselves also, ceaselessly and relentlessly, to death in one short day after seven long years underground.”
“A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.”

Source : "Nobel Laureates, 1901-2000". Book by Alan Symons (p.1), 2000.

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