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The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.

Khaled Hosseini

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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
Medical Writer
Novelist
Physician
Physician Writer
Writer
Cabool
Books
Success
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Bewildering
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You changed the subject. From what? The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy. You know. Know what? That I only have eyes for you.
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I’m all you have in this world Mariam, and when I’m gone you’ll have nothing. You ARE nothing!
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I found a sad little fairy Beneath the shade of a paper tree. I know a sad little fairy Who was blown away by the wind one night.
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one.
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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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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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The finger cut, to save the hand.
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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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People in the countryside carry a sense of dignity. They wear it, don't they? Like a badge? I'm being genuine.
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People say that eyes are windows to the soul.
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Reading is an active, imaginative act it takes work.
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I started a foundation, called The Khaled Hosseini Foundation. The mission has been to help the most vulnerable groups in Afghanistan. So the focus has been on women, children, and homeless refugees, most of whom are in fact women and children.
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Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
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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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The short of it is, as an aspiring writer, there is nothing as damaging to your credibility as saying that you don't like to read.
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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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sometimes the shifting of rocks is deep, deep below, and it's powerful and scary down there, but that all we feel on the surface is a slight tremor. Only a slight tremor.
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I experienced Kabul with my brother the way Amir and Hassan do: long school days in the summer, kite fighting in the winter time, westerns with John Wayne at Cinema Park, big parties at our house in Wazir Akbar Khan, picnics in Paghman.
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I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.
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