The Reluctant Fundamentalist Quotes

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The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Chapters 1-4 Character Identity Quotes “The men and women—yes, the women, to—of my household are working people.” p. 10 “I started by asking questions to understand the technology: how scalable it was, how reliable, how safe.” p. 13 “Princeton made everything possible for me. But it did not, could not, make me forget such things as how much I enjoy the tea in this, the city of my birth, steeped long enough to acquire a rich, dark color, and made creamy with fresh, full-fat milk.” p. 15 “I had not before this been to Europe or even swum in the sea—Lahore is, as you know, a ninety-minute journey by air from the coast—and so I gave in to the pleasure of being among this wealthy young fellowship.” p. 21 “”But you told us,” they would say to Greeks twice their age, before insisting things be done their way.” p. 21 “Suffice it to say that in relationship to the contemporary female icons of your country, she belonged more to the camp of Paltrow than to that of Spears.” p. 22 “It is the effect of scarcity; one’s rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper.” p. 26 “When my turn came, I said I hoped one day to be dictator of an Islamic republic with nuclear capability; the others appeared shocked, and I was forced to explain that I had been joking.” p. 29 “Like Manhattan? Yes, precisely! And that was one of the reasons why for me moving to New York felt—so unexpectedly—like coming home.” p. 32 “I was, in four and a half years, never an American; I was immediately a New Yorker.” p. 33 “On that day, I did not think of myself as a Pakistani, but as an Underwood Samson trainee, and my firm’s impressive offices made me proud.” p. 34 “Or perhaps it was my ability to function both respectfully and with self-respect in a hierarchical environment, something American youngsters—unlike their Pakistani

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