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People learned to live with the most unimaginable things.
Khaled Hosseini
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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
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I experienced Kabul with my brother the way Amir and Hassan do: long school days in the summer, kite fighting in the winter time, westerns with John Wayne at Cinema Park, big parties at our house in Wazir Akbar Khan, picnics in Paghman.
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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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She lived in fear of his shifting moods, his volatile temperament, his insistence on steering even mundane exchanges down a confrontational path that, on occasion, he would resolve with punches, slaps, kicks, and sometimes try to make amends for with polluted apologies, and sometimes not.
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I'm gladly doing my own thing for the time being.
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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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If culture was a house, then language was the key to the front door, [and] to all rooms inside.
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So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one.
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In March of 2001, I revisited the short story, and found that thought it did not work well as a short story, it might work much better as a longer one. The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.
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I guess some stories do not need telling.
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these random unkind moment that catch you wen you least expect them.
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There will be no floating waway. There will be no other reality tonight.
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I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writing. So what I know about writing, I know from my own instincts, and whatever the narrative voice is in my own head.
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There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.
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A pathetic shadow, torn between her envy and thrill of being seen with Masomma, sharing in the attention as a weed would, lapping up water meant for the lily upstream.
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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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