One ought not to encourage beggars, and yes, you are right, it is far better to donate to … - Mohsin Hamid

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Resources on the planet are limited, and limited resources can come to an end. But there are also a lot of resources that are renewable. A lot of land, for example, can be reclaimed from the encroaching deserts.

Mohsin Hamid

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.

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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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I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.

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I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.

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I really do believe that people surprise you. And one of the powerful things about novels is that they're about characters, and those characters live their lives.

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Many boys, probably most boys, have a first love before they fall in love with a woman. It begins the moment two boys realize they'd die for one another, that each cares more for the other than he does for himself, and it lasts usually until a second love comes on the scene, because most hearts aren't big enough to love more than one person like that.

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