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The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.
Khaled Hosseini
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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
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My father and I did work for a while at the flea market and there really are rows of Afghans working there, some of whom I am related to.
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Now, especially in public places, you always have that unease. When the children were cast, if I thought that they might be victims of violence because of participating in this movie, we would have chosen children from outside this country.
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I get daily e-mails from Afghans who thank me for writing this book [The Kite Runner], as they feel a slice of their story has been told by one of their own. So, for the most part, I have been overwhelmed with the kindness of my fellow Afghans.
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The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
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Every woman needed a husband, even if he did silence the song in her.
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A pathetic shadow, torn between her envy and thrill of being seen with Masomma, sharing in the attention as a weed would, lapping up water meant for the lily upstream.
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He knew I'd seen everything in that alley, that I'd stood there and done nothing. He knew that I'd betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once again, maybe for the last time.
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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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She would grab whatever she could -a look , a whisper , a moan - to salvage from perishing , to perserve. But time is most unforgivving of fires , and she couldn't , in the end , save it all .
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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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You’re not going to cry, are you? - I am not going to cry! Not over you. Not in a thousand years.
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A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated.
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