He said that if culture is a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the rooms inside. Without it, he said, you ended up wayward, without a proper home or a legitimate identity.
KHALED HOSSEINIAfghanistan 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.
More Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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True redemption is when guilt leads to good.
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She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.
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Yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism.
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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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One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.
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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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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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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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But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
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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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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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And that, is the story of our country, one invasion after another Macedonians. Saddanians. Arabs. Mongols. Now the Soviets. But we’re like those walls up there. Battered, and nothing pretty to look at, but still standing.
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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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