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Afghanistan is a rural nation, where 85 percent of people live in the countryside. And out there it's very, very conservative, very tribal - almost medieval.

Afghanistan Almost Conservative Countryside
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I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.

Afghanistan Come Emancipation Gradually
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For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture.

Burden Culture Entire Kind
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I grew up in a society with a very ancient and strong oral storytelling tradition. I was told stories, as a child, by my grandmother, and my father as well.

Ancient Child Father Grandmother
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I lay no claim, it should be clear, to being a historian. So in my books, the intimate and personal have been intertwined inextricably with the broad and historical.

Been Being Books Broad
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Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.
Act Active Imaginative Reading
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I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things.

Enjoy Family Life Live
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Ultimately, my books are not about the politics, although the toil and the struggle and the wars in Afghanistan have a significant impact on the lives of my characters.

About Afghanistan Although Books
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Kabul was very popular with the hippies in the Sixties and Seventies. It was very quiet and peaceful.

Hippies Peaceful Popular Quiet
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I was good at being a doctor; my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their spouses. It was a real privilege.

Being Doctor Good Liked
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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.

Accusing Always Create Finds
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There's nothing easy about writing. It's always difficult. It's always a struggle.

About Always Difficult Easy
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My wife is my in-home editor and reads everything I write.

Editor Everything I Write Reads
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The only two places where I can read for long stretches are in airplanes and in bed at nighttime.

Airplane Bed I Can Long
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I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure.

Actual Avoided Books Electronic
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I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious.

Both Course Disdain Extremism
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Usually in films, when Muslims pray, it's either before or after they've blown something up.

After Before Blown Either
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A Western-style democracy in Afghanistan is a dream. I don't see that as a reality anytime soon. But I think some form of representative political process is not that far-fetched.

Afghanistan Anytime Democracy Dream
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People find meaning and redemption in the most unusual human connections.

Connections Find Human Meaning
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The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems.

Difficulty Directly First How
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All stories I write are compulsive. Anything I've ever written was because I don't have a choice. I write stories because I can't wait to tell it, I can't wait to see how it ends.

Anything Because Choice Compulsive
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The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.

Books Me Success Surprise
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Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child. It's something I've revisited a few times in my writings.

About Between Child Economic
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Writing for me is largely about rewriting.

About Largely Me Rewriting
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I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word. To be a writer - this may seem trite, I realize - you have to actually write.

Actually Boo Got Many
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I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader.

Almost Boring Fear Pathological
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Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.

Afghan Been Few Group
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You have to write every day, and you have to write whether you feel like it or not.

Day Every Every Day Feel
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Write the story you need to tell and want to read. It's impossible to know what others want, so don't waste time trying to guess.

Guess Impossible Know Need
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Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

World Beautiful Terrible Thing
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The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.
God Place Deep Gladness
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Go where your best prayers take you

Go Prayer Take
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Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking.
Life Grace Sleep Night
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The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.

Grace God Life Complete
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Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.
Doubt Ant Pants Faith
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Coincidences are God's way of getting our attention.

Coincidence God Attention
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The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt

Life Touch Trembling Felt
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It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.
Impossible God Demonstrate Existence
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A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand.

Miracle Greater Sum Parts
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To be wise is to be eternally curious.
Wise Eternally Curious
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Joy is a mystery because it can happen anywhere, anytime, even under the most unpromising circumstances, even in the midst of suffering, with tears in its eyes....

Joy Mystery Anywhere Anytime
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It’s less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart.

Words Unsaid Split Friends
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Vocation is the place where our deep gladness meets the world's deep need

Vocation Deep Gladness
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The place to which God calls you is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

God Place Deep Gladness
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Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.

Lust Craving Salt Dying
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Thus, when you wake up in the morning, called by God to be a self again, if you want to know who you are, watch your feet. Because where your feet take you, that is who you are
Wake Morning God Feet
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Remember me not for the ill I've done but for the good I've dreamed.

Remember Ill Good Dream
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If you have never known the power of God's love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it - I mean really asked, expecting an answer.

Power God Love Answer
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God himself does not give answers. He gives himself.
God Himself Answer
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Without somehow destroying me in the process, how could God reveal himself in a way that would leave no room for doubt? If there were no room for doubt, there would be no room for me.

Process Reveal God Room
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