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Dr. Bashiri, if I ever want to put a curse in someone, I say, 'May God give you a restaurant.

Khaled Hosseini

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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
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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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Gone. Vanished. Nothing left. Nothing said.
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War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
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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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I found myself sitting at the computer, and I thought I was going to write a kind of simple nostalgic story about two boys and their love of kite fighting. But stories have a will of their own, and this one turned out to be this dark tale about betrayal, loss, regret. The short story which was about 25 pages long sat around for a couple of years.
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