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 HOSSEINIYou can not stop you from being who you are.
More Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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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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Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
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Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.
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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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Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly.
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Whether you do something or decide to do nothing, either way, you are making a moral choice. And I hope people make the right one.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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