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Khaled Hosseini

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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
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Creating means vandalizing the lives of other people, turning them into unwilling and unwitting participants. You steal their desires, their dreams, pocket their flaws, their suffering. You take what does not belong to you. You do this knowingly.
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It was you Nabi. It was always you. Didn't you know?
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I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.
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I don't know whom or what he was defying. [...] [M]aybe the God he had never believed in.
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I have been a fan of comic books since childhood.
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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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There [in The Kite Runner] certainly are, as is always the case with fiction, autobiographical elements woven through the narrative.
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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 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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Yes, hope is a strange thing. Peace at last. But at what price?
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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 believe Fabio Celoni's work vividly brings to life not only the mountains, the bazaars, the city of Kabul and its kite-dotted skies, but also the many struggles, conflicts, and emotional highs and lows of Amir's journey [from the The Kite Runner].
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I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people.
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You’re not going to cry, are you? - I am not going to cry! Not over you. Not in a thousand years.
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The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
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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 found a sad little fairy Beneath the shade of a paper tree. I know a sad little fairy Who was blown away by the wind one night.
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The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.
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[Barack Obama] is sending more troops [to Afghanistan], but they have also realized that we are not going to win that war through guns and tanks. We have to engage the neighbors, and it is good that there is a non-military strategy in addition to a military strategy. It is, at least, encouraging. Whether it will work or not, the jury is still put.
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I think he loved us equally, but differently.
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