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If my book generates any sort of dialogue among Afghans, then I think it will have done a service to the community.

Khaled Hosseini

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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
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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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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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A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated.
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It's tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.
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It turned out that, like Satan, cancer had many names.
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There [in The Kite Runner] certainly are, as is always the case with fiction, autobiographical elements woven through the narrative.
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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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After all, life is not a Hindi movie.
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Gone. Vanished. Nothing left. Nothing said.
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The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
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Air grew heavy, damp, almost solid. I was breathing bricks.
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At the time we are focusing our efforts primarily on building shelters for refugees. Homelessness in Afghanistan is a huge problem.
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It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.
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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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Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.
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the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion
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Dr. Bashiri, if I ever want to put a curse in someone, I say, 'May God give you a restaurant.
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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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In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity.
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