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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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Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.
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She said, 'I'm so afraid.' And I said, 'why?,' and she said, 'Because I'm so profoundly happy, Dr. Rasul. Happiness like this is frightening.' I asked her why and she said, 'They only let you be this happy if they're preparing to take something from you.
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As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling.
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Reading is an active, imaginative act it takes work.
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There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.
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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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J’aurais dû être plus gentille—I should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person. You will never think that.
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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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Life is a train, get on board.
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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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But then it passed, as all things do.
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the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion
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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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A stubborn ass needs a stubborn driver
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I've read that if an avalanche buries you and you're lying there underneath all that snow, you can't tell which way is up or down. You want to dig yourself out but pick the wrong way, and you dig yourself to your own demise.
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For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.
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I found myself sitting at the computer, and I thought I was going to write a kind of simple nostalgic story about two boys and their love of kite fighting. But stories have a will of their own, and this one turned out to be this dark tale about betrayal, loss, regret. The short story which was about 25 pages long sat around for a couple of years.
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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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If culture was a house, then language was the key to the front door, [and] to all rooms inside.
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