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" For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture. "

Khaled Hosseini

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" People find meaning and redemption in the most unusual human connections. "

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" A doctor in a hospital told me that when the mujaheddin were fighting in the early Nineties, he often performed amputations and Caesarean sections without anesthesia because there were no supplies. "

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" I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure. "

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" I grew up around a lot of Rumi, Hafez and Omar Khayyam books. My parents in Kabul had all the volumes around the house. "

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" The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me. "

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" My books never go where I think they're going. "

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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. "

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" American high school culture was impenetrable to me, and very cliquey: you had the Hispanics, the African Americans, the surfer guys and the goths and the immigrants. The jocks and the surfers got the girls. By the time I'd got to grips with it, I'd graduated. "

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" My wife is my in-home editor and reads everything I write. "

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" Writing for me is largely about rewriting. "

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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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" I give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift. "

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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. "

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" My memories of Kabul are vastly different than the way it is when I go there now. My memories are of the final years before everything changed. When I grew up in Kabul, it couldn't be mistaken for Beirut or Tehran, as it was still in a country that's essentially religious and conservative, but it was suprisingly progressive and liberal. "

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

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

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" You have to write every day, and you have to write whether you feel like it or not. "

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" You must not believe your own PR; it would be grotesque. "

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" Syria's neighboring countries cannot and should not carry the cost of caring for refugees on their own. The international community must share the burden with them by providing economic aid, investing in development in those countries, and opening their own borders to desperate Syrian families looking for protection. "

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" Qualities you need to get through medical school and residency: Discipline. Patience. Perseverance. A willingness to forgo sleep. A penchant for sadomasochism. Ability to weather crises of faith and self-confidence. Accept exhaustion as fact of life. Addiction to caffeine a definite plus. Unfailing optimism that the end is in sight. "

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" I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader. "

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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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" The jury is out as to whether the Afghans are up to the task of protecting their people. "

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" The only two places where I can read for long stretches are in airplanes and in bed at nighttime. "

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" I'm fascinated by the way early experiences haunt and revisit you, remain present in your life for decades and decades - they can even shape who you ultimately become. "

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" I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting. "

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" Afghan people are just so tired of war. "

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" I hate resting. I feel restless. My preference is to be working. "

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" There's no excuse for the macro corruption, but Afghanistan was always an informal society with a weak central government. "

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