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Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

Khaled Hosseini

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A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later.
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True redemption is when guilt leads to good.
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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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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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Some stories don’t need telling.
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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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When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife’s right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.
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It’s tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.
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Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every person is crippled in his or her own way by our inability to truly present ourselves to the world.
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.
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I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills. But I am here, my legs blocks of concrete, my lungs empty of air, my throat burning. There will be no floating away.
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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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Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.
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And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
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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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