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Mohsin Hamid Quotes: All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood.
         

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


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Childbirth changed my perception of my wife. She was now the bloodied special forces soldier who had fought and risked everything for our family.



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Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.



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Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.



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It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we should not imagine that you Americans are all undercover assassins.



I think sometimes feeling that you've been marginalized opens you up to the realization that, in their own lives, almost everyone experiences marginalization, a kind of foreigner sense.

I think sometimes feeling that you've been marginalized opens you up to the realization that, in their own lives, almost everyone experiences marginalization, a kind of foreigner sense.



Time only moves in one direction. Remember that. Things always change.

Time only moves in one direction. Remember that. Things always change.



I think massive migration is inevitable. As sea levels rise, as climate change happens, as fertile fields become arid, as wars are fought, people are going to move. They always have.

I think massive migration is inevitable. As sea levels rise, as climate change happens, as fertile fields become arid, as wars are fought, people are going to move. They always have.



When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.

When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.



It's important to have a non-nostalgic view and say, let's look forward, because if we don't, all we'll hear are voices telling us to go back.

It's important to have a non-nostalgic view and say, let's look forward, because if we don't, all we'll hear are voices telling us to go back.



She was struggling against a current that brought her inside herself.

She was struggling against a current that brought her inside herself.





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