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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
Medical Writer
Novelist
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it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
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So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one.
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A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated.
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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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You don't order someone to polish your shoes one day and call them 'sister' the next.
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Kabul was a thriving cosmopolitan city with its vibrant artistic, intellectual and cultural life. There were poets, musicians, and writers. There was also an influx of western culture, art, and literature in the '60s and '70s.
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I get daily e-mails from Afghans who thank me for writing this book [The Kite Runner], as they feel a slice of their story has been told by one of their own. So, for the most part, I have been overwhelmed with the kindness of my fellow Afghans.
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For a novelist, it’s kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture. That said, I’m in a unique position to speak on behalf of Afghanistan on certain issues that I feel are important, particularly the issue of Afghan refugees.
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In Afghanistan, you don't understand yourself solely as an individual. You understand yourself as a son, a brother, a cousin to somebody, an uncle to somebody. You are part of something bigger than yourself.
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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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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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The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
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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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Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.
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I guess some stories do not need telling.
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They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.
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People learned to live with the most unimaginable things.
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yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism
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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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Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.
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