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What the sounds and smells do not divulge, gossip supplies. It spreads like wildfire in the neighborhood, where everyone is watching one another's morals.

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When a man has everything and does not know what more to do, he tries to teach his donkey to talk.

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Anonymity became a release, the only place to which I could turn.

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They played a game of dare — who could get closest to the flames?

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In Afghanistan a woman's longing for love is taboo. It is forbidden by the tribes' notion of honor and by the mullahs. Young people have no right to meet, to love, or to choose. Love has little to do with romance; on the contrary, love can be interpreted as committing a serious crime, punishable by death.

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There are many things one can think of when one needs someone to vent one's wrath on.

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Under a bad leadership Serbs are capable of committing the most terrible atrocities; under good leaders we can do great deeds. It's like a field — if it's not cared for, the weeds will take over. But if you tend it, water and feed the seeds, you will read a bountiful harvest. Serbs are lazy, we lack discipline and have no capacity for self-criticism.

Åsne Seierstad

Åsne Seierstad

Åsne Seierstad

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Born: February 10, 1970 (age 55)

Bio: Åsne Seierstad is a Norwegian freelance journalist and writer, best known for her accounts of everyday life in war zones most notably Kabul after 2001, Baghdad in 2002 and the ruined Grozny in 2006.

Known for:

The Bookseller of Kabul (2002)
Angel of Grozny (2007)
One Hundred And One Days: A Baghdad Journal (2004)
With Their Backs to the World (2004)

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