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It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.

Khaled Hosseini

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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
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[Barack Obama] is sending more troops [to Afghanistan], but they have also realized that we are not going to win that war through guns and tanks. We have to engage the neighbors, and it is good that there is a non-military strategy in addition to a military strategy. It is, at least, encouraging. Whether it will work or not, the jury is still put.
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True redemption is...when guilt leads to good.
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On a high mountain I stood, And cried the name of Ali, Lion of God.O Ali, Lion of God, King of Men, Bring joy to our sorrowful hearts.
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I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader.
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The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.
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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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Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.
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I'm gladly doing my own thing for the time being.
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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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After all, life is not a Hindi movie.
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she held her breath, and in her head, counted seconds. She pretended that for each second she didn’t breathe, God would grant her another day
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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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If there was a God, he'd guide the winds, let them blow for me so that, with a tug of my string, I'd cut loose my pain, my longing.
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You say their stories, it is gift they give you.
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In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.
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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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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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I think novelists, when they write their books, end up having occasionally serving a purpose and playing roles that they never really fully either intended or even understood.
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It turned out that, like Satan, cancer had many names.
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So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one.
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