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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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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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The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck.
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Without women taking an active role in Afghan society, rebuilding Afghanistan is going to be very difficult.
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You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it.
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In her smile, Idris sees how little of the world he has known, even at thirty-five years of age, its savageness, its cruelty, its boundless brutality.
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I get daily e-mails from Afghans who thank me for writing this book [The Kite Runner], as they feel a slice of their story has been told by one of their own. So, for the most part, I have been overwhelmed with the kindness of my fellow Afghans.
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some stories don't need telling
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The bulk of our efforts [in The Khaled Hosseini Foundation] has focused on helping build permanent shelters for returning refugees who are homeless, living out in the open or in makeshift homes. This is an area of urgent need as Afghanistan's natural elements are quite harsh, with very hot summers, and freezing winters.
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For a novelist, it’s kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture. That said, I’m in a unique position to speak on behalf of Afghanistan on certain issues that I feel are important, particularly the issue of Afghan refugees.
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I think he loved us equally, but differently.
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I've read that if an avalanche buries you and you're lying there underneath all that snow, you can't tell which way is up or down. You want to dig yourself out but pick the wrong way, and you dig yourself to your own demise.
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Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.
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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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You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.
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Literature and film have a way of lifting you from your own existence and transporting you to some foreign place and putting you in the shoes with an experience different than your own.
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The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.
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The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
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the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion
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We will also be funding projects that empower women and children in Afghanistan and now and then give scholarships to Afghan students here in the Bay Area.
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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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