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Khaled Hosseini
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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
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Must have been quite the culture shock, going there.” “Yes it was.” Idris doesn’t say that the real culture shock has been in coming back.
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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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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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People learned to live with the most unimaginable things.
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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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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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The story of what has happened to women in Afghanistan, however, is a very important one, and fertile ground for fiction.
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cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same colour.
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I found a sad little fairy Beneath the shade of a paper tree. I know a sad little fairy Who was blown away by the wind one night.
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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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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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Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.
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For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.
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So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one.
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I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.
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I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader.
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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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You’re not going to cry, are you? - I am not going to cry! Not over you. Not in a thousand years.
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And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.
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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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