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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.
Khaled Hosseini
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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
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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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Air grew heavy, damp, almost solid. I was breathing bricks.
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One time, when I was very little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became hard like a drum, it hurt a lot. Mother said that if I'd just waited for the apples to ripen, I wouldn't have become sick. So now, whenever I really want something, I try to remember what she said about the apples.
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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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The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again.
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America was different. America was a river, roarng along, unmindful of the past. I could wade into this river, let my sins drown to the bottom, let the waters carry me someplace far. Someplace with no ghosts, no memories, and no sins.
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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.
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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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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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You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it.
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I think the changes that have happened, there have been come positive, but by and large, you have to say the changes have been negative. The situation has reached a fairly critical stage in Afghanistan.
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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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She said, 'I'm so afraid.' And I said, 'why?,' and she said, 'Because I'm so profoundly happy, Dr. Rasul. Happiness like this is frightening.' I asked her why and she said, 'They only let you be this happy if they're preparing to take something from you.
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Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.
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It turned out that, like Satan, cancer had many names.
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But if you have a book that needs urgent reading,' she said, 'then Hakim is your man.
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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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The short of it is, as an aspiring writer, there is nothing as damaging to your credibility as saying that you don't like to read.
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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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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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