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It was you Nabi. It was always you. Didn't you know?

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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
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I shook my head no. For minutes, neither of us spoke a word. It breathed between us, what he had said, the pain of a life suppressed, of happiness never to be.
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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 may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.
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cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same colour.
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I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader.
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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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The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again.
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You have think tanks like the widely respected Atlantic Council that have published reports in the past year that have called Afghanistan a failing state.
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A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated.
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People say that eyes are windows to the soul.
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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 returned to Afghanistan because I had a deep longing to see for myself how people lived, what they thought of their government, how optimistic they were about the future of their homeland.
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Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.
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If culture was a house, then language was the key to the front door, [and] to all rooms inside.
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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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My father and I did work for a while at the flea market and there really are rows of Afghans working there, some of whom I am related to.
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She would grab whatever she could -a look , a whisper , a moan - to salvage from perishing , to perserve. But time is most unforgivving of fires , and she couldn't , in the end , save it all .
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In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself, and it is laden with contradictions, with tension, with anger, with love, with loathing, with angst.
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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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these random unkind moment that catch you wen you least expect them.
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