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I grew up with some kind of storytelling instinct, and when I write, my default setting is to find a story and then to tell it. It's the only way I know how to write.

Khaled Hosseini

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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
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Don't be afraid to tell the truth. It's better to hurt someone by truth than to make them happy by lies.
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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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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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You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it.
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Now, especially in public places, you always have that unease. When the children were cast, if I thought that they might be victims of violence because of participating in this movie, we would have chosen children from outside this country.
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Kabul was very popular with the hippies in the Sixties and Seventies. It was very quiet and peaceful.
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
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these random unkind moment that catch you wen you least expect them.
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For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.
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A stubborn ass needs a stubborn driver
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Gone. Vanished. Nothing left. Nothing said.
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Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.
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I was overwhelmed with the kindness of people [in Afghanistan] and found that they had managed to retain their dignity, their pride, and their hospitality under unspeakably bleak conditions.
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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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You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. 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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I don't know whom or what he was defying. [...] [M]aybe the God he had never believed in.
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It turned out that, like Satan, cancer had many names.
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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 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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