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True redemption is...when guilt leads to good.

Khaled Hosseini

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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
Medical Writer
Novelist
Physician
Physician Writer
Writer
Cabool
Redemption
Leads
Guilt
True
Good

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I don't know what this feather means, the story of it, but I know it means he was thinking of me. For all these years. He remembered me.
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these random unkind moment that catch you wen you least expect them.
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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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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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I shook my head no. For minutes, neither of us spoke a word. It breathed between us, what he had said, the pain of a life suppressed, of happiness never to be.
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War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
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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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it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
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Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.
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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.
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Kabul was very popular with the hippies in the Sixties and Seventies. It was very quiet and peaceful.
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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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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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Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.
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[Flying kite with my friends] is one of the seminal memories of growing up for me.
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and yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had love and been loved back. she was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. a mother. a person of consequence at last.
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You say their stories, it is gift they give you.
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The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
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