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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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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
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So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one.
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It's tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.
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Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
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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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Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.
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A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated.
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cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same colour.
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The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.
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There will be no floating waway. There will be no other reality tonight.
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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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Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that’s all she can do. That and hope.
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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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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 The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.
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Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything
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Without women taking an active role in Afghan society, rebuilding Afghanistan is going to be very difficult.
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You say their stories, it is gift they give you.
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There are, however, those who have called the book [The Kite Runner] divisive and objected to some of the issues raised in the book, namely racism, discrimination, ethnic inequality etc.
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It was you Nabi. It was always you. Didn't you know?
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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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