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If culture was a house, then language was the key to the front door, [and] to all rooms inside.
Khaled Hosseini
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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
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cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same colour.
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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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So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one.
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Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.
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Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.
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