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Mohsin Hamid

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

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  • Shin Loon Leehas quoted3 years ago
    What we do know is that information is power. An
  • Shin Loon Leehas quoted3 years ago
    Your father is a cook, but despite being reasonably good at his job and originating in the countryside, he is not a man obsessed with the freshness or quality of his ingredients
  • rosdelorbehas quoted7 years ago
    you have been beyond yourself, and so you have courage, and you have dignity, and you have calmness in the face of terror, and awe, and the pretty girl holds your hand, and you contain her, and this book, and I writing it, and I too contain you, who may not yet even be born, you inside me inside you, though not in a creepy way, and so may you, may I, may we, so may all of us confront the end.
  • rosdelorbehas quoted7 years ago
    it is easy to skim money from you. You do not begrudge him this. You would do the same. You have done the same.
  • rosdelorbehas quoted7 years ago
    The factotum stays, in part out of loyalty to the pretty girl and in part because it is easy to skim money from you. You do not begrudge him this. You would do the same. You have done the same. It is a poor person’s right. Instead you are grateful for his help, for his refusal to sever you from your few remaining possessions by violence
  • rosdelorbehas quoted7 years ago
    it is easy to skim money from you. You do not begrudge him this. You would do the same. You have done the same. It is a poor person’s right. Instead you are grateful for his help, for his refusal to sever you from your few remaining possessions by violence.
  • rosdelorbehas quoted7 years ago
    a story, to read a story, is to be a refugee from the state of refugees. Writers and readers seek a solution to the problem that time passes, that those who have gone are gone and those who will go, which is to say every one of us, will go. For there was a moment when anything was possible. And there will be a moment when nothing is possible. But in between we can create.
  • rosdelorbehas quoted7 years ago
    We are all refugees from our childhoods. And so we turn, among other things, to stories. To write
  • rosdelorbehas quoted7 years ago
    What we do know is that information is power. And so information has become central to war, that most naked of our means by which power is sought.
  • rosdelorbehas quoted7 years ago
    We’re all information, all of us, whether readers or writers, you or I. The DNA in our cells, the bioelectric currents in our nerves, the chemical emotions in our brains, the configurations of atoms within us and of subatomic particles within them, the galaxies and whirling constellations we perceive not only when looking outward but also when looking in, it’s all, every last bit and byte of it, information.
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