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Khaled Hosseini

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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
Medical Writer
Novelist
Physician
Physician Writer
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Cabool
Hindi
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If culture was a house, then language was the key to the front door, [and] to all rooms inside.
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The country [Afghanistan] faces enormous problems. There is a violent insurgency hampering the rule of law and developmental efforts.
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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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Writing for me is largely about rewriting.
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Reading is an active, imaginative act it takes work.
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I shook my head no. For minutes, neither of us spoke a word. It breathed between us, what he had said, the pain of a life suppressed, of happiness never to be.
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I think novelists, when they write their books, end up having occasionally serving a purpose and playing roles that they never really fully either intended or even understood.
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One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.
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It turned out that, like Satan, cancer had many names.
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I came to the US as an immigrant and I recall vividly those first few years in California, the brief time we spent on welfare, and the difficult task of assimilating into a new culture.
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some stories don't need telling
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If my book generates any sort of dialogue among Afghans, then I think it will have done a service to the community.
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Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.
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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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That's how children deal with terror, they fall asleep.
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The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck.
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It was you Nabi. It was always you. Didn't you know?
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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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Though there had been moments of beauty in it, Mariam knew that life for most part has been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not help but wish for more of it.
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Yes, hope is a strange thing. Peace at last. But at what price?
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