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We will also be funding projects that empower women and children in Afghanistan and now and then give scholarships to Afghan students here in the Bay Area.

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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
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It is now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey.
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I guess some stories do not need telling.
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They tell me I must wade into waters, where I will soon drown. Before I march in, I leave this on the shore for you. I pray you find it, sister, so you will know what was in my heart as I went under.
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Reading is an active, imaginative act it takes work.
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Marriage can wait, education cannot.
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War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
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I came to the US as an immigrant and I recall vividly those first few years in California, the brief time we spent on welfare, and the difficult task of assimilating into a new culture.
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Those who saw Kite Runner loved the film, for the most part, people seemed to really like the film.
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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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it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
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Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.
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I shook my head no. For minutes, neither of us spoke a word. It breathed between us, what he had said, the pain of a life suppressed, of happiness never to be.
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The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.
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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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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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