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Khaled Hosseini

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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
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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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I believe Fabio Celoni's work vividly brings to life not only the mountains, the bazaars, the city of Kabul and its kite-dotted skies, but also the many struggles, conflicts, and emotional highs and lows of Amir's journey [from the The Kite Runner].
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You have these crops of poppies that supply something like 90% of the heroin sold in Europe and actually represents more than half of the Afghanistan's GDP.
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You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it.
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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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Air grew heavy, damp, almost solid. I was breathing bricks.
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The country [Afghanistan] faces enormous problems. There is a violent insurgency hampering the rule of law and developmental efforts.
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I shook my head no. For minutes, neither of us spoke a word. It breathed between us, what he had said, the pain of a life suppressed, of happiness never to be.
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You don't have to donate money, it can be clothes, or books, or mediavl supplies. So there's so much that can be done [for refugees], the most difficult thing is that first step that decision to do something.
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I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people.
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In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity.
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True redemption is...when guilt leads to good.
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A stubborn ass needs a stubborn driver
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I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader.
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You changed the subject. From what? The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy. You know. Know what? That I only have eyes for you.
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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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At the time we are focusing our efforts primarily on building shelters for refugees. Homelessness in Afghanistan is a huge problem.
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Kabul was very popular with the hippies in the Sixties and Seventies. It was very quiet and peaceful.
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War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
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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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