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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.
Khaled Hosseini
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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
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For many people in the west, Afghanistan is synonymous with the Soviet war and the Taliban. I wanted to remind people that Afghans had managed to live in peaceful anonymity for decades, that the history of the Afghans in the twentieth century has been largely pacific and harmonious.
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it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
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The bulk of our efforts [in The Khaled Hosseini Foundation] has focused on helping build permanent shelters for returning refugees who are homeless, living out in the open or in makeshift homes. This is an area of urgent need as Afghanistan's natural elements are quite harsh, with very hot summers, and freezing winters.
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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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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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Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock. And
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But then it passed, as all things do.
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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 don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting.
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A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.
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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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You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.
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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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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 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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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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Gone. Vanished. Nothing left. Nothing said.
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There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.
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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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The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
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