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Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.

Khaled Hosseini

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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
Medical Writer
Novelist
Physician
Physician Writer
Writer
Cabool
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Women
Literary
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I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that you’d live to be a hundred years old. I didn’t know. I didn’t know that you were ashamed of me.
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A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.
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You don't order someone to polish your shoes one day and call them 'sister' the next.
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Must have been quite the culture shock, going there.” “Yes it was.” Idris doesn’t say that the real culture shock has been in coming back.
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If America taught me anything, it's that quitting is right up there with pissing in the Girl Scouts' lemonade jar.
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My father and I did work for a while at the flea market and there really are rows of Afghans working there, some of whom I am related to.
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You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.
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When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same color.
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In 2004, I took a one year sabbatical to finish my second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns. At the end of that year, I was not done with my book, and had to in effect resign from work. I did. I never went back.
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Zindagi migzara (life goes on)
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A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated.
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She lived in fear of his shifting moods, his volatile temperament, his insistence on steering even mundane exchanges down a confrontational path that, on occasion, he would resolve with punches, slaps, kicks, and sometimes try to make amends for with polluted apologies, and sometimes not.
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Now, especially in public places, you always have that unease. When the children were cast, if I thought that they might be victims of violence because of participating in this movie, we would have chosen children from outside this country.
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Reading is an active, imaginative act it takes work.
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In Afghanistan, you don't understand yourself solely as an individual. You understand yourself as a son, a brother, a cousin to somebody, an uncle to somebody. You are part of something bigger than yourself.
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People in the countryside carry a sense of dignity. They wear it, don't they? Like a badge? I'm being genuine.
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People learned to live with the most unimaginable things.
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some stories don't need telling
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Afghanistan has always been sort of a fractured nation, very tribal, where the countryside and the distant provinces have been run by custom, by tribal law and by tribal leaders rather than edicts from the central government in Kabul.
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For a novelist, it’s kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture. That said, I’m in a unique position to speak on behalf of Afghanistan on certain issues that I feel are important, particularly the issue of Afghan refugees.
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