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Blood is a powerful thing

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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
Medical Writer
Novelist
Physician
Physician Writer
Writer
Cabool
Blood
Powerful
Thing

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There are so many orgizations that do amazing work. I represent not only my own foundation, but the UN Refugee Agency, which has been around since 1951, and has helped 30 million refugees around the world.
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Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
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The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.
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I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting.
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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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I have been a fan of comic books since childhood.
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There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.
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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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Writing for me is largely about rewriting.
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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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If America taught me anything, it's that quitting is right up there with pissing in the Girl Scouts' lemonade jar.
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At the time we are focusing our efforts primarily on building shelters for refugees. Homelessness in Afghanistan is a huge problem.
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Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.
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yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism
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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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By then The Kite Runner had become quite successful and I found myself in a position that I had always dreamed of my whole life, which was to write for a living.
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I grew up with some kind of storytelling instinct, and when I write, my default setting is to find a story and then to tell it. It's the only way I know how to write.
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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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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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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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