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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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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
Medical Writer
Novelist
Physician
Physician Writer
Writer
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It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.
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I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting.
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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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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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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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The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck.
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that’s all she can do. That and hope.
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In many parts of the world, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create.
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I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.
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If thou art indeed my father, then hast thou stained thy sword in the life-blood of thy son. And thous didst it of thine obstinacy. For I sought to turn thee unto love, and I implored of thee thy name, for I thought to behold in thee the tokens recounted of my mother. But I appealed unto thy heart in vain, and now is the time gone for meeting.
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A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.
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The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.
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[Flying kite with my friends] is one of the seminal memories of growing up for me.
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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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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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Kabul was very popular with the hippies in the Sixties and Seventies. It was very quiet and peaceful.
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A stubborn ass needs a stubborn driver
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In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity.
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