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40 Afghan Quotes
Marriage can wait, education cannot.
Khaled Hosseini
Marriage
Wait
Education
Cannot
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I think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S.
Khaled Hosseini
Appreciate
Baseball
Been
Born
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Khaled Hosseini
Gift
Gifts
Give
Like
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Khaled Hosseini
Distracting
Find
I Write
Listen
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I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writing.
Khaled Hosseini
Any
Background
Been
Biology
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There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.
Khaled Hosseini
Afghanistan
Even
Even Now
Form
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I've been told, and I think I recognize it, that there's a cinematic quality to my writing, with a sense of image and place and scene - and, some would say, my tendency to finish my books the way Hollywood finishes its films.
Khaled Hosseini
Been
Books
Cinematic
Films
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When I go to Afghanistan, I realize I've been spared, due to a random genetic lottery, by being born to people who had the means to get out. Every time I go to Afghanistan I am haunted by that.
Khaled Hosseini
Afghanistan
Am
Been
Being
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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.
Khaled Hosseini
Action
Actions
Consequences
Every
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Khaled Hosseini
Alive
Fiction
Kept
Literary
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Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.
Khaled Hosseini
Books
Feel
I Feel
Readers
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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.
Khaled Hosseini
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.
Khaled Hosseini
Afghanistan
Come
Emancipation
Gradually
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For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture.
Khaled Hosseini
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.
Khaled Hosseini
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.
Khaled Hosseini
Been
Being
Books
Broad
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Khaled Hosseini
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.
Khaled Hosseini
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.
Khaled Hosseini
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.
Khaled Hosseini
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.
Khaled Hosseini
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.
Khaled Hosseini
Accusing
Always
Create
Finds
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There's nothing easy about writing. It's always difficult. It's always a struggle.
Khaled Hosseini
About
Always
Difficult
Easy
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My wife is my in-home editor and reads everything I write.
Khaled Hosseini
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.
Khaled Hosseini
Airplane
Bed
I Can
Long
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I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure.
Khaled Hosseini
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.
Khaled Hosseini
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.
Khaled Hosseini
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.
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Afghanistan
Anytime
Democracy
Dream
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People find meaning and redemption in the most unusual human connections.
Khaled Hosseini
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.
Khaled Hosseini
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.
Khaled Hosseini
Anything
Because
Choice
Compulsive
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The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.
Khaled Hosseini
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.
Khaled Hosseini
About
Between
Child
Economic
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Writing for me is largely about rewriting.
Khaled Hosseini
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.
Khaled Hosseini
Actually
Boo
Got
Many
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I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader.
Khaled Hosseini
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.
Khaled Hosseini
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.
Khaled Hosseini
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.
Khaled Hosseini
Guess
Impossible
Know
Need
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