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People say that eyes are windows to the soul.

Khaled Hosseini

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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
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Literature and film have a way of lifting you from your own existence and transporting you to some foreign place and putting you in the shoes with an experience different than your own.
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In 2004, I took a one year sabbatical to finish my second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns. At the end of that year, I was not done with my book, and had to in effect resign from work. I did. I never went back.
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these random unkind moment that catch you wen you least expect them.
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You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.
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I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader.
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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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Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.
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Don't be afraid to tell the truth. It's better to hurt someone by truth than to make them happy by lies.
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If my book generates any sort of dialogue among Afghans, then I think it will have done a service to the community.
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cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same colour.
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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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Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.
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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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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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I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people.
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A pathetic shadow, torn between her envy and thrill of being seen with Masomma, sharing in the attention as a weed would, lapping up water meant for the lily upstream.
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Blood is a powerful thing
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A stubborn ass needs a stubborn driver
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In March of 2001, I revisited the short story, and found that thought it did not work well as a short story, it might work much better as a longer one. The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.
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Writing for me is largely about rewriting.
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