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cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same colour.

Khaled Hosseini

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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
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They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.
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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 The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.
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Without women taking an active role in Afghan society, rebuilding Afghanistan is going to be very difficult.
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Reading is an active, imaginative act it takes work.
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You have these crops of poppies that supply something like 90% of the heroin sold in Europe and actually represents more than half of the Afghanistan's GDP.
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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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The finger cut, to save the hand.
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A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated.
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My father and I did work for a while at the flea market and there really are rows of Afghans working there, some of whom I am related to.
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If the story had been about anyone else, it would been dismissed as laaf, that Afghan tendency to exaggerate ---sadly, almost a national affliction if someone bragged that his son was a doctor, chances were the kid had once passed a biology test in high school.
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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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Literature and film have a way of lifting you from your own existence and transporting you to some foreign place and putting you in the shoes with an experience different than your own.
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At the time we are focusing our efforts primarily on building shelters for refugees. Homelessness in Afghanistan is a huge problem.
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She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.
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But if you have a book that needs urgent reading,' she said, 'then Hakim is your man.
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You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.
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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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People learned to live with the most unimaginable things.
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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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It was you Nabi. It was always you. Didn't you know?
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