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Khaled Hosseini Inspirational Quotes (190)

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Whether you do something or decide to do nothing, either way, you are making a moral choice. And I hope people make the right one.
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I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader.
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They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.
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It turned out that, like Satan, cancer had many names.
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Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.
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Yes, hope is a strange thing. Peace at last. But at what price?
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I think the changes that have happened, there have been come positive, but by and large, you have to say the changes have been negative. The situation has reached a fairly critical stage in Afghanistan.
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Kabul was a thriving cosmopolitan city with its vibrant artistic, intellectual and cultural life. There were poets, musicians, and writers. There was also an influx of western culture, art, and literature in the '60s and '70s.
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It's literally just been formed. It's a 501 C3, non-profit charitable foundation called, unsurprisingly, the Khalled Hosseini Foundation. The aim is to help refugees and aim vulnerable women and children.
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In her smile, Idris sees how little of the world he has known, even at thirty-five years of age, its savageness, its cruelty, its boundless brutality.
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Zindagi migzara (life goes on)
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President Karzai is an incredibly kind and decent man. I had the pleasure of meeting him, and he genuinely cares for his people. But I think he had too much of a tendency to want to rule by listening to all voices at all times.
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I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.
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In March of 2001, I revisited the short story, and found that thought it did not work well as a short story, it might work much better as a longer one. The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.
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We [in The Khaled Hosseini Foundation] support and fund projects that bring jobs, healthcare, and education to women and children. In addition, we award scholarships to women pursuing higher education in Afghanistan.
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cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same colour.
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Dr. Bashiri, if I ever want to put a curse in someone, I say, 'May God give you a restaurant.
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And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.
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I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.
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The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again.
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In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity.
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For many people in the west, Afghanistan is synonymous with the Soviet war and the Taliban. I wanted to remind people that Afghans had managed to live in peaceful anonymity for decades, that the history of the Afghans in the twentieth century has been largely pacific and harmonious.
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There [in The Kite Runner] certainly are, as is always the case with fiction, autobiographical elements woven through the narrative.
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At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent.
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