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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.

Khaled Hosseini

The experience of writing ‘The Kite Runner’ is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again.
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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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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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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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All good things in life are fragile and easily lost.
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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 can not stop you from being who you are.
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I finally had what I’d wanted all those years. Except now that I had it, i felt as empty as this unkempt pool I was dangling my legs into.
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She said, ‘I’m so afraid.’ And I said, ‘why?,’ and she said, ‘Because I’m so profoundly happy, Dr. Rasul. Happiness like this is frightening.’ I asked her why and she said, ‘They only let you be this happy if they’re preparing to take something from you.
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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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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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War doesn’t negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
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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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Hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon.
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I should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person. You will never think that.
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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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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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