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We [in The Khaled Hosseini Foundation] support and fund projects that bring jobs, healthcare, and education to women and children. In addition, we award scholarships to women pursuing higher education in Afghanistan.
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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
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They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.
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Without women taking an active role in Afghan society, rebuilding Afghanistan is going to be very difficult.
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So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one.
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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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The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
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If America taught me anything, it's that quitting is right up there with pissing in the Girl Scouts' lemonade jar.
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A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated.
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It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.
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Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.
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The country [Afghanistan] faces enormous problems. There is a violent insurgency hampering the rule of law and developmental efforts.
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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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As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling.
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In 2004, I took a one year sabbatical to finish my second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns. At the end of that year, I was not done with my book, and had to in effect resign from work. I did. I never went back.
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In her smile, Idris sees how little of the world he has known, even at thirty-five years of age, its savageness, its cruelty, its boundless brutality.
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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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I remember reading 'The Grapes of Wrath' in high school in 1983. My family had immigrated to the U.S. three years before, and I had spent the better part of the first two years learning English. John Steinbeck's book was the first book I read in English where I had an 'Aha!' moment, namely in the famed turtle chapter.
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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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Kabul was very popular with the hippies in the Sixties and Seventies. It was very quiet and peaceful.
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In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity.
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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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