Quotes by Khaled Hosseini

Khaled Hosseini

[Barack Obama] is sending more troops [to Afghanistan], but they have also realized that we are not going to win that war through guns and tanks. We have to engage the neighbors, and it is good that there is a non-military strategy in addition to a military strategy. It is, at least, encouraging. Whether it will work or not, the jury is still put.

Gun

Military

War

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[Flying kite with my friends] is one of the seminal memories of growing up for me.

Flying

Growing Up

Memories

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[Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns] is not just unique to books, but films and music.

Book

Kites

Unique

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A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything.

Amir

Boys

Men

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A great deal remains to be done in Afghanistan and the jury is out as to whether the international community has the commitment and the patience to see the rebuilding process through.

Commitment

Community

Done

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A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

Doe

Men

Suffering

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A man’s heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn’t like a mother’s womb. It won’t bleed. It won’t stretch to make room for you.

Heart

Men

Mother

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A part of me was hoping someone would wake up and hear, so I wouldn’t have to live with this lie anymore. But no one woke up and in the silence that followed, I understood the nature of my new curse: I was going to get away with it.

Lying

Silence

Wake Up

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A pathetic shadow, torn between her envy and thrill of being seen with Masomma, sharing in the attention as a weed would, lapping up water meant for the lily upstream.

Envy

Water

Weed

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A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated.

Chance

Splendid

Thousand

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