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Khaled Hosseini
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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
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sometimes the shifting of rocks is deep, deep below, and it's powerful and scary down there, but that all we feel on the surface is a slight tremor. Only a slight tremor.
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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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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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The finger cut, to save the hand.
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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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Whether you do something or decide to do nothing, either way, you are making a moral choice. And I hope people make the right one.
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these random unkind moment that catch you wen you least expect them.
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For many people in the west, Afghanistan is synonymous with the Soviet war and the Taliban. I wanted to remind people that Afghans had managed to live in peaceful anonymity for decades, that the history of the Afghans in the twentieth century has been largely pacific and harmonious.
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Joseph shall return to Canaan, grieve not, Hovels shall turn to rose gardens, grieve not. If a flood should arrive, to drown all that's alive, Noah is your guide in the typhoon's eye, grieve not.
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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 will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. There are a lot of medical things that happen. A hip fracture, three different kinds of lung cancer, pneumonia, blood poisoning, and so on.
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When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same color.
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Men are easy,' he said, fingers tapping on his mahogany desk. 'A man's plumbing is like his mind: simple, very few surprises. You ladies, on the other hand...well, God put a lot of thought into making you.
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