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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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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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Joseph shall return to Canaan, grieve not, Hovels shall turn to rose gardens, grieve not. If a flood should arrive, to drown all that's alive, Noah is your guide in the typhoon's eye, grieve not.
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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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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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Writing for me is largely about rewriting.
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All good things in life are fragile and easily lost
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The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
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Gone. Vanished. Nothing left. Nothing said.
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some stories don't need telling
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She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.
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There [in The Kite Runner] certainly are, as is always the case with fiction, autobiographical elements woven through the narrative.
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He knew I'd seen everything in that alley, that I'd stood there and done nothing. He knew that I'd betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once again, maybe for the last time.
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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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In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself, and it is laden with contradictions, with tension, with anger, with love, with loathing, with angst.
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The bulk of our efforts [in The Khaled Hosseini Foundation] has focused on helping build permanent shelters for returning refugees who are homeless, living out in the open or in makeshift homes. This is an area of urgent need as Afghanistan's natural elements are quite harsh, with very hot summers, and freezing winters.
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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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The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck.
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