I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes aesthetic book brevity
Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself. Mohsin Hamid echoempathyfind Change image and share on social
If your sense of self is destabilised, to imagine being another becomes pretty easy. Mohsin Hamid destabiliseeasyimagine Change image and share on social
Growing up in Pakistan in the 1980s, I lived in the shadow of a tyrannical state. Mohsin Hamid 1980sgrowlive Change image and share on social
There are risks in the sheer brevity of Twitter, and it's actually quite an elegant art reducing what you have to say to 140 characters, and it's something that I quite enjoy attempting to do. Richard Dawkins artattemptbrevity Change image and share on social
Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle. Mike Tyson beginbookcycle Change image and share on social
Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined. Friedrich Nietzsche addaestheticbeautiful share on social