Kamila Shamsie Quotes - Page 2

• Don't you know how much I hero-worshiped you when I was a kid? You were Marie Curie crossed with Emily Bronte crossed with Joan of Arc to me when I was ten. And when i told you that, you said my cultural references were the sign of a colonized mind.

  Kamila Shamsie

  Hero, Kids, Mind

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• Difficult but worth it-- that's how my mother had once describe life with Omi.

  Kamila Shamsie

  Mother, Difficult, Worth It

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• They adore you beacause they think you offer up your friendship and ask for nothing in return. But that's not true-' He took a deep breath. 'You do ask for something. You ask that we never expect you to need us.

  Kamila Shamsie

  Thinking, Needs, Return

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• I still hear the world spinning.

  Kamila Shamsie

  World, Spinning, Stills

  Kamila Shamsie (2011). “Kartography”, p.5, A&C Black

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• No self-respecting feminist could argue with the claim that the novel is more likely to accept existing power structures than not. But there's a vast difference, surely, between Dickens saying Indians should be exterminated and a Dave Eggers writing eloquently about the NSA, but not being as outspoken on American military power abroad.

  Kamila Shamsie

  Military, Writing, Self

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Why do you have to be so annoying sometimes?" "Cant help it. It's the company I keep.

  Kamila Shamsie

  Helping, Sometimes, Annoying

  Kamila Shamsie (2011). “Kartography”, p.17, A&C Black

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