One ought not to encourage beggars, and yes, you are right, it is far better to donate to charities that address the causes of poverty rather than to him, a creature who is merely its symptom.
Mohsin HamidShe was struggling against a current that brought her inside herself.
Mohsin HamidTags: well-said
Maximum return was the maxim to which we returned.
Mohsin HamidTags: humor return maximum maxim well-said
The ruins proclaim the building was beautiful.
Mohsin HamidTags: well-said
You're never rude,' she said, smiling, 'and I think it's good to be touchy sometimes. It means you care.
Mohsin HamidThe poets say some moths will do anything out of love for a flame
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The moth takes off again, and we both step back, because he's circling at eye level now and seems to have lost rudder control, smacking into the wall on each round. He circles lower and lower, spinning around the candle in tighter revolutions, like a soap sud over an open drain. A few times he seems to touch the flame, but dances off unhurt.
Then he ignites like a ball of hair, curling into an oily puff of fumes with a hiss. The candle flame flickers and dims for a moment, then burns as bright as before.
Moth Smoke Lingers.
Tags: love tragedy fire insects moth smoke star-crossed
When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.
Mohsin HamidTags: past future uncertainty
In a subway car, my skin would typically fall in the middle of the color spectrum. On street corners, tourists would ask me for directions. I was, in four and a half years, never an American; I was immediately a New Yorker.
Mohsin HamidIt 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.
Mohsin HamidAs a society, you were unwilling to reflect upon the shared pain that united you with those who attacked you. You retreated into myths of your own difference, assumptions of your own superiority. And you acted out these beliefs on the stage of the world, so that the entire planet was rocked by the repercussions of your tantrums, not least my family, now facing war thousands of miles away.
Mohsin HamidTags: pakistan
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