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Time can be a greedy thing — sometimes it steals the details for itself.

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I want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin.

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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.

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When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same color.

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I foresaw my life unfolding as an interminable stretch of nothingness and so I spent my years on Tinos floundering, feeling like a stand-in for myself, a proxy, as though my real self resided elsewhere, waiting to unite someday with this dimmer, more hollow self. I felt marooned. An exile in my own home

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On a high mountain I stood, And cried the name of Ali, Lion of God.O Ali, Lion of God, King of Men, Bring joy to our sorrowful hearts.

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Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock. And

Khaled Hosseini

Khaled Hosseini

Khaled Hosseini

Born: March 4, 1965 (age 59)

Bio: Khaled Hosseini is an Afghan-born American novelist and physician. After graduating from college, he worked as a doctor in California, an occupation that he likened to "an arranged marriage".

Known for:

The Kite Runner (2003)
A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
And the Mountains Echoed (2013)
The Kite Runner Graphic Novel (2011)
The Kite Runner: Graphic Novel (2011)

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