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I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.

Khaled Hosseini

You’re gutless. It’s how you were made. And that’s not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you’ve never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is God help him.
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Bad Coward God Grace Help Lying Remember Save Wrong Yourself
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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Attention Flower Pathetic See View Water
You can not stop you from being who you are.
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Be Yourself Stop
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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Alive Deep Family God Gratitude Husband Myself Son Thankful Wife
I’m gladly doing my own thing for the time being.
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Happiness Love Myself Time
Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.
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Life Peace Quiet Silence Tranquility
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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Extraordinary Truth Wait
I’ve read that if an avalanche buries you and you’re lying there underneath all that snow, you can’t tell which way is up or down. You want to dig yourself out but pick the wrong way, and you dig yourself to your own demise.
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Bury Lying Reading Wrong Yourself
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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Children Deep Fair Father Husband Kill Life Lying Man Right Spiritual Theft Truth Wife Yourself
Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.
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Life Peace Quiet Silence Tranquility
The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can’t love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.
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Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.
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There is only one sin. and that is theft. When you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.
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Some stories don’t need telling.
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Need One Liner Story Talk
But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
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Comfortable Hurt Lying Truth
It was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free or you stayed and withstood its rigor even as it squeezed you into something smaller than yourself.
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War doesn’t negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
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It’s a funny thing… but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they’re afraid of. What they don’t want.
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Afraid Deep Funny Guide Live People Wisdom
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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End Novel Play Purpose Role Thinking Understand Writing
People say that eyes are windows to the soul.
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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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Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
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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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And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
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Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.
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A man’s heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn’t like a mother’s womb. It won’t bleed. It won’t stretch to make room for you.
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I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.

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