Mohsin Hamid, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
4 quotes
"You are a door to an existence she does not desire, but even if the room beyond is repugnant, that door has won a portion of her affection."
"Many skills, as every successful entrepreneur knows, cannot be taught in school. They require doing. Sometimes a life of doing. And where money-making is concerned, nothing compresses the time frame needed to leap from my-shit-just-sits-there-until-it-rains poverty to which-of-my-toilets-shall-I-use affluence like an apprenticeship with someone who already has the angles all figured out."
"Readers don’t work for writers. They work for themselves."
"It is possible to adore those newly come into your world, to envision, no matter how late in the day, a happily entwined future with those who have not been part of your past."