I laughed. Partly at the joke, partly at how Afghan humor never changed. Wars were waged, the Internet was invented, and a robot had rolled on the surface of Mars, and in Afghanistan we were still telling Mullah Nasruddin jokes.
KHALED HOSSEINILife just doesn’t care about our aspirations, or sadness. It’s often random, and it’s often stupid and it’s often completely unexpected, and the closures and the epiphanies and revelations we end up receiving from life, begrudgingly, rarely turn out to be the ones we thought.
More Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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But then it passed, as all things do.
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Afghanistan has always been sort of a fractured nation, very tribal, where the countryside and the distant provinces have been run by custom, by tribal law and by tribal leaders rather than edicts from the central government in Kabul.
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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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War doesn’t negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
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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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What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.
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And every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan.
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And every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan.
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In many parts of the world, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create.
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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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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.
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I think novelists, when they write their books, end up having occasionally serving a purpose and playing roles that they never really fully either intended or even understood.
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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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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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