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Khaled Hosseini
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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
Medical Writer
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In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity.
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At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent.
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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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A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.
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She lived in fear of his shifting moods, his volatile temperament, his insistence on steering even mundane exchanges down a confrontational path that, on occasion, he would resolve with punches, slaps, kicks, and sometimes try to make amends for with polluted apologies, and sometimes not.
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Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.
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it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
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I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. There are a lot of medical things that happen. A hip fracture, three different kinds of lung cancer, pneumonia, blood poisoning, and so on.
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And one more thing...You will never again refer to him as 'Hazara boy' in my presence. He has a name and it's Sohrab.
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On a high mountain I stood, And cried the name of Ali, Lion of God.O Ali, Lion of God, King of Men, Bring joy to our sorrowful hearts.
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I don't know what this feather means, the story of it, but I know it means he was thinking of me. For all these years. He remembered me.
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Now, no matter what the mullah teaches, there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft.
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