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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.
Khaled Hosseini
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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
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I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting.
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In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.
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Gone. Vanished. Nothing left. Nothing said.
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The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.
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Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.
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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 was you Nabi. It was always you. Didn't you know?
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She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.
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