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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.

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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Every woman needed a husband, even if he did silence the song in her.
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I remember reading 'The Grapes of Wrath' in high school in 1983. My family had immigrated to the U.S. three years before, and I had spent the better part of the first two years learning English. John Steinbeck's book was the first book I read in English where I had an 'Aha!' moment, namely in the famed turtle chapter.
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There [in Afghanistan ] is a tremendous need for selter. So I am focusing most of the efforts of the foundation to building shelters for refugees in northern Afghanistan and we have already begun doing so.
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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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Writing for me is largely about rewriting.
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There will be no floating waway. There will be no other reality tonight.
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People say that eyes are windows to the soul.
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Whether you do something or decide to do nothing, either way, you are making a moral choice. And I hope people make the right one.
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There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.
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it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
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We [in The Khaled Hosseini Foundation] support and fund projects that bring jobs, healthcare, and education to women and children. In addition, we award scholarships to women pursuing higher education in Afghanistan.
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I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.
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She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.
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Marriage can wait, education cannot.
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The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.
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For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.
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In March of 2001, I revisited the short story, and found that thought it did not work well as a short story, it might work much better as a longer one. The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.
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