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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
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I’m all you have in this world Mariam, and when I’m gone you’ll have nothing. You ARE nothing!
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I'm gladly doing my own thing for the time being.
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If my book generates any sort of dialogue among Afghans, then I think it will have done a service to the community.
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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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Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock. And
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I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.
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I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious.
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She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.
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There [in Afghanistan ] is a tremendous need for selter. So I am focusing most of the efforts of the foundation to building shelters for refugees in northern Afghanistan and we have already begun doing so.
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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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I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writing. So what I know about writing, I know from my own instincts, and whatever the narrative voice is in my own head.
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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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The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck.
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After all, life is not a Hindi movie.
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Those who saw Kite Runner loved the film, for the most part, people seemed to really like the film.
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[Barack Obama] is sending more troops [to Afghanistan], but they have also realized that we are not going to win that war through guns and tanks. We have to engage the neighbors, and it is good that there is a non-military strategy in addition to a military strategy. It is, at least, encouraging. Whether it will work or not, the jury is still put.
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Then I think of all the tricks, all the minutes all the hours and days and weeks and months and years waiting for me. All of it without them. And I can't breathe then, like someone's stepping on my heart, Laila. So weak I just want to collapse somewhere.
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[Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns] is not just unique to books, but films and music.
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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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