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If America taught me anything, it's that quitting is right up there with pissing in the Girl Scouts' lemonade jar.

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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
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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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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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Kabul was very popular with the hippies in the Sixties and Seventies. It was very quiet and peaceful.
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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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And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.
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A pathetic shadow, torn between her envy and thrill of being seen with Masomma, sharing in the attention as a weed would, lapping up water meant for the lily upstream.
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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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it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
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After all, life is not a Hindi movie.
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I'm gladly doing my own thing for the time being.
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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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Life is a train, get on board.
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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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I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that you’d live to be a hundred years old. I didn’t know. I didn’t know that you were ashamed of me.
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