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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
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We [in The Khaled Hosseini Foundation] support and fund projects that bring jobs, healthcare, and education to women and children. In addition, we award scholarships to women pursuing higher education in Afghanistan.
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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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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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I returned to Afghanistan because I had a deep longing to see for myself how people lived, what they thought of their government, how optimistic they were about the future of their homeland.
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some stories don't need telling
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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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In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity.
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Mostly, though, I dream of good things...I dream that flowers will bloom in the streets..again and music will play in the...houses and kites will fly in the skies.
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In March of 2001, I revisited the short story, and found that thought it did not work well as a short story, it might work much better as a longer one. The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.
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She would grab whatever she could -a look , a whisper , a moan - to salvage from perishing , to perserve. But time is most unforgivving of fires , and she couldn't , in the end , save it all .
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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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I guess some stories do not need telling.
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The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.
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cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same colour.
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But if you have a book that needs urgent reading,' she said, 'then Hakim is your man.
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Reading is an active, imaginative act it takes work.
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