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She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.

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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
Medical Writer
Novelist
Physician
Physician Writer
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Teacups
Knees

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If America taught me anything, it's that quitting is right up there with pissing in the Girl Scouts' lemonade jar.
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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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it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
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The country [Afghanistan] faces enormous problems. There is a violent insurgency hampering the rule of law and developmental efforts.
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I brought Hassan’s son from Afghanistan to America, lifting him from the certainty of turmoil and dropping him in a turmoil of uncertainty
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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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The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.
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Blood is a powerful thing
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There will be no floating waway. There will be no other reality tonight.
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People say that eyes are windows to the soul.
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On a high mountain I stood, And cried the name of Ali, Lion of God.O Ali, Lion of God, King of Men, Bring joy to our sorrowful hearts.
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I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious.
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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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Hassan and I fed from the same breasts. We took our first steps on the same lawn in the same yard. And, under the same roof, we spoke our first words. Mine was Baba. His was Amir. My name. Looking back on it now, I think the foundation for what happened in the winter of 1975 —and all that followed— was already laid in those first words.
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In 2004, I took a one year sabbatical to finish my second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns. At the end of that year, I was not done with my book, and had to in effect resign from work. I did. I never went back.
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Afghanistan has always been sort of a fractured nation, very tribal, where the countryside and the distant provinces have been run by custom, by tribal law and by tribal leaders rather than edicts from the central government in Kabul.
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Though there had been moments of beauty in it, Mariam knew that life for most part has been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not help but wish for more of it.
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