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Reading is an active, imaginative act it takes work.

Khaled Hosseini

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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
Medical Writer
Novelist
Physician
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Life is a train, get on board.
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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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Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
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Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.
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One time, when I was very little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became hard like a drum, it hurt a lot. Mother said that if I'd just waited for the apples to ripen, I wouldn't have become sick. So now, whenever I really want something, I try to remember what she said about the apples.
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There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.
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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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I think he loved us equally, but differently.
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I’m all you have in this world Mariam, and when I’m gone you’ll have nothing. You ARE nothing!
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The Taliban's acts of cultural vandalism - the most infamous being the destruction of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas - had a devastating effect on Afghan culture and the artistic scene. The Taliban burned countless films, VCRs, music tapes, books, and paintings. They jailed filmmakers, musicians, painters, and sculptors.
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some stories don't need telling
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The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.
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By then The Kite Runner had become quite successful and I found myself in a position that I had always dreamed of my whole life, which was to write for a living.
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In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity.
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You have think tanks like the widely respected Atlantic Council that have published reports in the past year that have called Afghanistan a failing state.
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The story of what has happened to women in Afghanistan, however, is a very important one, and fertile ground for fiction.
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She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.
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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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Kabul was very popular with the hippies in the Sixties and Seventies. It was very quiet and peaceful.
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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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