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There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.

Khaled Hosseini

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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
Medical Writer
Novelist
Physician
Physician Writer
Writer
Cabool
Afghanistan
Childhood
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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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She thought of Aziza's stutter, and of what Aziza had said earlier about fractures and powerful collisions deep down and how sometimes all we see on the surface is a slight tremor.
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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 say their stories, it is gift they give you.
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You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.
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[Flying kite with my friends] is one of the seminal memories of growing up for me.
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You have think tanks like the widely respected Atlantic Council that have published reports in the past year that have called Afghanistan a failing state.
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If there was a God, he'd guide the winds, let them blow for me so that, with a tug of my string, I'd cut loose my pain, my longing.
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But then it passed, as all things do.
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A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated.
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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 came to the US as an immigrant and I recall vividly those first few years in California, the brief time we spent on welfare, and the difficult task of assimilating into a new culture.
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People learned to live with the most unimaginable things.
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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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War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
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Whether you do something or decide to do nothing, either way, you are making a moral choice. And I hope people make the right one.
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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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The finger cut, to save the hand.
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It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.
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Writing for me is largely about rewriting.
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