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Khaled Hosseini
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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
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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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[Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns] is not just unique to books, but films and music.
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J’aurais dû être plus gentille—I should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person. You will never think that.
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I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that you’d live to be a hundred years old. I didn’t know. I didn’t know that you were ashamed of me.
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Afghanistan has always been sort of a fractured nation, very tribal, where the countryside and the distant provinces have been run by custom, by tribal law and by tribal leaders rather than edicts from the central government in Kabul.
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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Those who saw Kite Runner loved the film, for the most part, people seemed to really like the film.
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Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.
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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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Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.
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There will be no floating waway. There will be no other reality tonight.
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You say you felt a presence, but I only sensed an absence. A vague pain without a source. I was like a patient who cannot tell the doctor where it hurts, only that it does.
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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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If there was a God, he'd guide the winds, let them blow for me so that, with a tug of my string, I'd cut loose my pain, my longing.
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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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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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Air grew heavy, damp, almost solid. I was breathing bricks.
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The Taliban's acts of cultural vandalism - the most infamous being the destruction of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas - had a devastating effect on Afghan culture and the artistic scene. The Taliban burned countless films, VCRs, music tapes, books, and paintings. They jailed filmmakers, musicians, painters, and sculptors.
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