People Quotes by Khaled Hosseini

People learned to live with the most unimaginable things.

— Khaled Hosseini

People say that eyes are windows to the soul.

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I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people.

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

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yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism

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There was brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that even time could not break. - Amir

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People…shouldn’t be allowed to have new children if they’d already given away all their love to their old ones. It wasn’t fair.

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I'm sorry," Laila says, marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she…

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I now know that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse.

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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…

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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…

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And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

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It's hard when you make a film from a book that so many people love, because there's no way to get the…

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I was overwhelmed with the kindness of people [in Afghanistan] and found that they had managed to retain their dignity, their pride,…

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I returned to Afghanistan because I had a deep longing to see for myself how people lived, what they thought of their…

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“It’s a funny thing, Markos, but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really what…

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The cities, the roads, the countryside, the people I meet - they all begin to blur. I tell myself I am searching…

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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…

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I may not agree with all or even most of the tribal traditions, but it seems ti me that, out there, people…

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The ordinary, utterly mundane reason behind the massacre makes it somehow more terrible, and far more depressing. The word 'senseless' springs to…

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Mariam lay on the couch, hands tucked between her knees, watched the whirlpool of snow twisting and spinning outside the window. She…

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People talk about apathy, especially in developed countries. We're kind of lulled into these tranquil lives, and we are pursuing our own…

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In early 1999, I was watching TV, when I came across a story on Afghanistan. It was a story about the Taliban…

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When I went to Afghanistan in 2003, I walked into a war zone. Entire neighborhoods had been demolished. There were an overwhelming…

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there is a God, there always has been. I see him here, in the eyes of the people in this [hospital] corridor…

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Hassan and I looked at each other. Cracked up. The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the…

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I would give them (aspiring writers) the oldest advice in the craft: Read and write. Read a lot. Read new authors and…

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Probably the single most commen response I get from my readesr, be it through e-mails or letters, is that they did not…

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Those who saw Kite Runner loved the film, for the most part, people seemed to really like the film.

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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…

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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…

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It's wrong to hurt even bad people. Because they don't know any better, and because bad people sometimes become good.

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People in the countryside carry a sense of dignity. They wear it, don't they? Like a badge? I'm being genuine.

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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…

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I have a theory about marriage, Monsieur Boustouler. And it's that nearly always you will know within two weeks if it's going…

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To me, families are puzzles that take a lifetime to work out - or not, as often is the case - and…

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For many people in the west, Afghanistan is synonymous with the Soviet war and the Taliban. I wanted to remind people that…

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My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness…

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President Karzai is an incredibly kind and decent man. I had the pleasure of meeting him, and he genuinely cares for his…

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Creating means vandalizing the lives of other people, turning them into unwilling and unwitting participants. You steal their desires, their dreams, pocket…

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