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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
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True redemption is...when guilt leads to good.
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the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion
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It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.
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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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If the story had been about anyone else, it would been dismissed as laaf, that Afghan tendency to exaggerate ---sadly, almost a national affliction if someone bragged that his son was a doctor, chances were the kid had once passed a biology test in high school.
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I’m all you have in this world Mariam, and when I’m gone you’ll have nothing. You ARE nothing!
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One time, when I was very little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became hard like a drum, it hurt a lot. Mother said that if I'd just waited for the apples to ripen, I wouldn't have become sick. So now, whenever I really want something, I try to remember what she said about the apples.
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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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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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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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In many parts of the world, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create.
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James Parkinson. George Huntington. Robert Graves. John Down. Now this Lou Gehrig fellow of mine. How did men come to monopolize disease names too?
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I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious.
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At the time we are focusing our efforts primarily on building shelters for refugees. Homelessness in Afghanistan is a huge problem.
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It's tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.
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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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Those who saw Kite Runner loved the film, for the most part, people seemed to really like the film.
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I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.
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Dr. Bashiri, if I ever want to put a curse in someone, I say, 'May God give you a restaurant.
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I grew up with some kind of storytelling instinct, and when I write, my default setting is to find a story and then to tell it. It's the only way I know how to write.
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