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Khaled Hosseini
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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
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Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that’s all she can do. That and hope.
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A great deal remains to be done in Afghanistan and the jury is out as to whether the international community has the commitment and the patience to see the rebuilding process through.
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these random unkind moment that catch you wen you least expect them.
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Life just doesn't care about our aspirations, or sadness. It's often random, and it's often stupid and it's often completely unexpected, and the closures and the epiphanies and revelations we end up receiving from life, begrudgingly, rarely turn out to be the ones we thought.
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I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.
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I think he loved us equally, but differently.
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I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people.
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It is now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey.
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She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.
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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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You’re not going to cry, are you? - I am not going to cry! Not over you. Not in a thousand years.
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There are so many orgizations that do amazing work. I represent not only my own foundation, but the UN Refugee Agency, which has been around since 1951, and has helped 30 million refugees around the world.
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There are, however, those who have called the book [The Kite Runner] divisive and objected to some of the issues raised in the book, namely racism, discrimination, ethnic inequality etc.
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I've read that if an avalanche buries you and you're lying there underneath all that snow, you can't tell which way is up or down. You want to dig yourself out but pick the wrong way, and you dig yourself to your own demise.
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As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling.
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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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I returned to Afghanistan because I had a deep longing to see for myself how people lived, what they thought of their government, how optimistic they were about the future of their homeland.
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After all, life is not a Hindi movie.
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I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting.
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I get daily e-mails from Afghans who thank me for writing this book [The Kite Runner], as they feel a slice of their story has been told by one of their own. So, for the most part, I have been overwhelmed with the kindness of my fellow Afghans.
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