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After all, life is not a Hindi movie.
Khaled Hosseini
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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
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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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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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sometimes the shifting of rocks is deep, deep below, and it's powerful and scary down there, but that all we feel on the surface is a slight tremor. Only a slight tremor.
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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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I experienced Kabul with my brother the way Amir and Hassan do: long school days in the summer, kite fighting in the winter time, westerns with John Wayne at Cinema Park, big parties at our house in Wazir Akbar Khan, picnics in Paghman.
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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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Men are easy,' he said, fingers tapping on his mahogany desk. 'A man's plumbing is like his mind: simple, very few surprises. You ladies, on the other hand...well, God put a lot of thought into making you.
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People learned to live with the most unimaginable things.
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Blood is a powerful thing
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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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Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.
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She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.
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My father and I did work for a while at the flea market and there really are rows of Afghans working there, some of whom I am related to.
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I grew up with some kind of storytelling instinct, and when I write, my default setting is to find a story and then to tell it. It's the only way I know how to write.
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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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And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.
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There are so many orgizations that do amazing work. I represent not only my own foundation, but the UN Refugee Agency, which has been around since 1951, and has helped 30 million refugees around the world.
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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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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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Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that’s all she can do. That and hope.
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