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It's hard when you make a film from a book that so many people love, because there's no way to get the entire story into a two-hour movie. But I was pleased with the reaction [for Kite Runner].
Khaled Hosseini
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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
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Gone. Vanished. Nothing left. Nothing said.
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If my book generates any sort of dialogue among Afghans, then I think it will have done a service to the community.
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You say you felt a presence, but I only sensed an absence. A vague pain without a source. I was like a patient who cannot tell the doctor where it hurts, only that it does.
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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 [in Afghanistan ] is a tremendous need for selter. So I am focusing most of the efforts of the foundation to building shelters for refugees in northern Afghanistan and we have already begun doing so.
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It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.
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In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity.
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yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism
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Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.
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I remember reading 'The Grapes of Wrath' in high school in 1983. My family had immigrated to the U.S. three years before, and I had spent the better part of the first two years learning English. John Steinbeck's book was the first book I read in English where I had an 'Aha!' moment, namely in the famed turtle chapter.
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Hassan couldn't read a first-grade textbook but he'd read me plenty. That was a little unsettling but also sort of comfortable to have someone who always knew what you needed.
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Must have been quite the culture shock, going there.” “Yes it was.” Idris doesn’t say that the real culture shock has been in coming back.
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Life just doesn't care about our aspirations, or sadness. It's often random, and it's often stupid and it's often completely unexpected, and the closures and the epiphanies and revelations we end up receiving from life, begrudgingly, rarely turn out to be the ones we thought.
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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 believe Fabio Celoni's work vividly brings to life not only the mountains, the bazaars, the city of Kabul and its kite-dotted skies, but also the many struggles, conflicts, and emotional highs and lows of Amir's journey [from the The Kite Runner].
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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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Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.
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The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.
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For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.
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