"The ruins proclaim the building was beautiful."

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Source : Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.144, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Mohsin Hamid

#Beautiful Quotes #Ruins Quotes #Building Quotes

“Never apologize for being nerdy.”
“The hip-hop community is made up of a lot of hustlers. Everybody is trying to get theirs, and everybody is trying to eat.”
“The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it, and came to know it the way a lover comes to know every inch of the body of the beloved. No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings.”
“[To Jean Harlow, who repeatedly mispronounced her first name:] No, no, Jean. The t is silent, as in Harlow.”
“Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses are women. I guess this is because the boys don't think that gender applies to them: that it's a subject for girls.”
“They did interviews with my wife and daughter-they were genuinely in fear of me having a heart attack, working 20 hours a day, eating fast food.”
“I am pretty proud to be the Super Bowl correspondent for Inside Edition. It is the most coveted assignment, and the most watched event in our country - every year. The pomp and circumstance during Super Bowl week leading up to the game is just incredible.”
“Visiting old haunts is hard on memory. Things shrink, change, and disappear.”

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