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Zindagi migzara (life goes on)
Khaled Hosseini
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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
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You have these crops of poppies that supply something like 90% of the heroin sold in Europe and actually represents more than half of the Afghanistan's GDP.
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True redemption is...when guilt leads to good.
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You changed the subject. From what? The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy. You know. Know what? That I only have eyes for you.
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I started a foundation, called The Khaled Hosseini Foundation. The mission has been to help the most vulnerable groups in Afghanistan. So the focus has been on women, children, and homeless refugees, most of whom are in fact women and children.
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It is now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey.
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People in the countryside carry a sense of dignity. They wear it, don't they? Like a badge? I'm being genuine.
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Writing for me is largely about rewriting.
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At last, she makes her choice. She turns around, drops her head, and walks toward a horizon she cannot see. After that, she does not look back anymore. She knows that if she does, she will weaken.
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[Barack Obama] is sending more troops [to Afghanistan], but they have also realized that we are not going to win that war through guns and tanks. We have to engage the neighbors, and it is good that there is a non-military strategy in addition to a military strategy. It is, at least, encouraging. Whether it will work or not, the jury is still put.
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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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Air grew heavy, damp, almost solid. I was breathing bricks.
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On a high mountain I stood, And cried the name of Ali, Lion of God.O Ali, Lion of God, King of Men, Bring joy to our sorrowful hearts.
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Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.
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She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.
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They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.
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Must have been quite the culture shock, going there.” “Yes it was.” Idris doesn’t say that the real culture shock has been in coming back.
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A stubborn ass needs a stubborn driver
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
Khaled Hosseini
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.
Khaled Hosseini
Life just doesn't care about our aspirations, or sadness. It's often random, and it's often stupid and it's often completely unexpected, and the closures and the epiphanies and revelations we end up receiving from life, begrudgingly, rarely turn out to be the ones we thought.
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