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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
Medical 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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The short of it is, as an aspiring writer, there is nothing as damaging to your credibility as saying that you don't like to read.
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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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It turned out that, like Satan, cancer had many names.
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she held her breath, and in her head, counted seconds. She pretended that for each second she didn’t breathe, God would grant her another day
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In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself, and it is laden with contradictions, with tension, with anger, with love, with loathing, with angst.
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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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So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one.
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She thought of Aziza's stutter, and of what Aziza had said earlier about fractures and powerful collisions deep down and how sometimes all we see on the surface is a slight tremor.
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You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.
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In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.
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I think the changes that have happened, there have been come positive, but by and large, you have to say the changes have been negative. The situation has reached a fairly critical stage in Afghanistan.
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It's literally just been formed. It's a 501 C3, non-profit charitable foundation called, unsurprisingly, the Khalled Hosseini Foundation. The aim is to help refugees and aim vulnerable women and children.
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I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.
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And one more thing...You will never again refer to him as 'Hazara boy' in my presence. He has a name and it's Sohrab.
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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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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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She lived in fear of his shifting moods, his volatile temperament, his insistence on steering even mundane exchanges down a confrontational path that, on occasion, he would resolve with punches, slaps, kicks, and sometimes try to make amends for with polluted apologies, and sometimes not.
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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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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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