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It turned out that, like Satan, cancer had many names.

Khaled Hosseini

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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
Medical Writer
Novelist
Physician
Physician Writer
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Satan
Cancer
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Many

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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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Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.
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cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same colour.
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[Flying kite with my friends] is one of the seminal memories of growing up for me.
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It was you Nabi. It was always you. Didn't you know?
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The story line of my novel [The Kite Runner] is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined.
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There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.
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At last, she makes her choice. She turns around, drops her head, and walks toward a horizon she cannot see. After that, she does not look back anymore. She knows that if she does, she will weaken.
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Mostly, though, I dream of good things...I dream that flowers will bloom in the streets..again and music will play in the...houses and kites will fly in the skies.
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You say their stories, it is gift they give you.
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She would grab whatever she could -a look , a whisper , a moan - to salvage from perishing , to perserve. But time is most unforgivving of fires , and she couldn't , in the end , save it all .
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But then it passed, as all things do.
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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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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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Kabul was a thriving cosmopolitan city with its vibrant artistic, intellectual and cultural life. There were poets, musicians, and writers. There was also an influx of western culture, art, and literature in the '60s and '70s.
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I grew up with some kind of storytelling instinct, and when I write, my default setting is to find a story and then to tell it. It's the only way I know how to write.
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Creating means vandalizing the lives of other people, turning them into unwilling and unwitting participants. You steal their desires, their dreams, pocket their flaws, their suffering. You take what does not belong to you. You do this knowingly.
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I was overwhelmed with the kindness of people [in Afghanistan] and found that they had managed to retain their dignity, their pride, and their hospitality under unspeakably bleak conditions.
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You say you felt a presence, but I only sensed an absence. A vague pain without a source. I was like a patient who cannot tell the doctor where it hurts, only that it does.
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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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