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Given enough time, polar bears might migrate off the Arctic ice, evolve darker coats, find a different diet, and thrive in a new, warmer climate. But if the ice on which they depend disappears in a few decades, they are likely to die.

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Stories helped me unite parts of my existence that might otherwise have seemed irrevocably split by geography and time. And stories helped me find a future in which I, such a mongrel, could be comfortable.

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It's very contrary to the notion of what America is to imagine that we can stop migration.

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I studied about the internment of Japanese Americans during the Second World War and about how the Constitution was written by men, many of whom were slave owners. So I suppose the travel ban strikes me as coming from an era I thought we'd left behind, but I guess we haven't entirely left it behind.

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I feel no desire to write a novel that takes place in the past.

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I think we need to radically reimagine the future - citizens, artist, writers, politicians, everyone.

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We are each of us composed of atoms, but equally, we are composed by time.

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Over time, our inescapable, systemic, fundamentally human impurity gives us the capacity to do what has not been done before: to make creative leaps in our biology, in the diseases we can resist and the foods we can digest. And in our thinking and culture and politics, too.

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Biography

Nationality: Pakistani

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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