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[Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns] is not just unique to books, but films and music.
Khaled Hosseini
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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
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Zindagi migzara (life goes on)
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Then I think of all the tricks, all the minutes all the hours and days and weeks and months and years waiting for me. All of it without them. And I can't breathe then, like someone's stepping on my heart, Laila. So weak I just want to collapse somewhere.
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and yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had love and been loved back. she was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. a mother. a person of consequence at last.
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You say their stories, it is gift they give you.
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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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it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
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One time, when I was very little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became hard like a drum, it hurt a lot. Mother said that if I'd just waited for the apples to ripen, I wouldn't have become sick. So now, whenever I really want something, I try to remember what she said about the apples.
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You don't order someone to polish your shoes one day and call them 'sister' the next.
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There are so many orgizations that do amazing work. I represent not only my own foundation, but the UN Refugee Agency, which has been around since 1951, and has helped 30 million refugees around the world.
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I think the changes that have happened, there have been come positive, but by and large, you have to say the changes have been negative. The situation has reached a fairly critical stage in Afghanistan.
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The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.
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The story line of my novel [The Kite Runner] is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined.
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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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Marriage can wait, education cannot.
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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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It turned out that, like Satan, cancer had many names.
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I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writing. So what I know about writing, I know from my own instincts, and whatever the narrative voice is in my own head.
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And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.
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I'm gladly doing my own thing for the time being.
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Though there had been moments of beauty in it, Mariam knew that life for most part has been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not help but wish for more of it.
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