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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
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If the story had been about anyone else, it would been dismissed as laaf, that Afghan tendency to exaggerate ---sadly, almost a national affliction if someone bragged that his son was a doctor, chances were the kid had once passed a biology test in high school.
Khaled Hosseini
Life just doesn't care about our aspirations, or sadness. It's often random, and it's often stupid and it's often completely unexpected, and the closures and the epiphanies and revelations we end up receiving from life, begrudgingly, rarely turn out to be the ones we thought.
Khaled Hosseini
Every woman needed a husband, even if he did silence the song in her.
Khaled Hosseini
I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.
Khaled Hosseini
Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.
Khaled Hosseini
I was overwhelmed with the kindness of people [in Afghanistan] and found that they had managed to retain their dignity, their pride, and their hospitality under unspeakably bleak conditions.
Khaled Hosseini
The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.
Khaled Hosseini
It's literally just been formed. It's a 501 C3, non-profit charitable foundation called, unsurprisingly, the Khalled Hosseini Foundation. The aim is to help refugees and aim vulnerable women and children.
Khaled Hosseini
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.
Khaled Hosseini
[Flying kite with my friends] is one of the seminal memories of growing up for me.
Khaled Hosseini
In many parts of the world, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create.
Khaled Hosseini
But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
Khaled Hosseini
If America taught me anything, it's that quitting is right up there with pissing in the Girl Scouts' lemonade jar.
Khaled Hosseini
I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.
Khaled Hosseini
There will be no floating waway. There will be no other reality tonight.
Khaled Hosseini
I brought Hassan’s son from Afghanistan to America, lifting him from the certainty of turmoil and dropping him in a turmoil of uncertainty
Khaled Hosseini
Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.
Khaled Hosseini
A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.
Khaled Hosseini
The finger cut, to save the hand.
Khaled Hosseini
So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one.
Khaled Hosseini