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Khaled Hosseini

"Stories close the gap and reconcile between what we want life to be and how it actually is."

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Donna Grant

"A great story is impossible to forget."

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Donna Grant

"At the end of your story, you get down to the purity of it all. It's like distilling something."

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Donna Grant

"Storytelling answers questions and solves mysteries."

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Donna Grant

"Experience is the catalyst for all great stories."

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Donna Grant

"What you need to remember is that there's a difference between lecturing about what you know and using it to enrich the story. The latter is good. The former is not."

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Donna Grant

"When I was a child, I pestered my elders for stories."

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Donna Grant

"As I quietly stare off into space, eyes glazed over and brow thoughtfully taut, know that I am going about my business. I am a storyteller. Daydreaming is the best part of my job."

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Donna Grant

"I made this story up to make me feel better. Now I'm writing it down. It's not true."

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Donna Grant

"The Marquis sighed. "I thought it was just a legend," he said. "Like the alligators in the sewers of New York City."Old Bailey nodded, sagely: "What, the big white buggers? They're down there. I had a friend lost a head to one of them." A moment of silence. Old Naeiley handed the statue back to the Marquis. Then he raised his hand, and snapped it, like a crocodile hand, at the Carabas. "It was OK," gurned Old Bailey with a grin that was most terrible to behold. "He had another."

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Donna Grant

"For me, that emotional payoff is what it's all about. I want you to laugh or cry when you read a story...or do both at the same time. I want your heart, in other words. If you want to learn something, go to school."

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Khaled Hosseini
"And that, ...is the story of our country, one invasion after another...Macedonians. Saddanians. Arabs. Mongols. Now the Soviets. But we're like those walls up there. Battered, and nothing pretty to look at, but still standing."

History

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Khaled Hosseini
"I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that you'd live to be a hundred years old. I didn't know. I didn't know that you were ashamed of me."

Life

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Khaled Hosseini
"In the coming days and weeks, Laila would scramble frantically to commit it all to memory, what happened next. Like an art lover running out of a burning museum, she would grab whatever she could--a look, a whisper, a moan--to salvage from perishing to preserve. But time is the most unforgiving of fires, and she couldn't, in the end, save it all."

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Khaled Hosseini
"There is a God, there always has been. I see him here, in the eyes of the people in this [hospital] corridor of desperation. This is the real house of God, this is where those who have lost God will find Him... there is a God, there has to be, and now I will pray, I will pray that He will forgive that I have neglected Him all of these years, forgive that I have betrayed, lied, and sinned with impunity only to turn to Him now in my hour of need. I pray that He is as merciful, benevolent, and gracious as His book says He is."

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Khaled Hosseini
"Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints would forever wash away beneath the waves of sorrow that swelled and crashed, swelled and crashed."

Emotion

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Khaled Hosseini
"They rarely look at Baba -- the teenagers -- and then only with cold indifference, or even subtle disdain, as if my father should have known better than to allow old age and decay to happen to him."

Life

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Khaled Hosseini
"She will not plant the seed in their mind, that a parent is capable of abandoning her children, of saying to them You are not enough. For Pari, the children and Eric have always been enough. They always will be."

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Khaled Hosseini
"Exploitation to finance a beach house in Hawaii was one thing. Doing it to feed your kids was another."

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Khaled Hosseini
"Public justice is the greatest kind of show, my brother. Drama. Suspense. And best of all education en masse."

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Khaled Hosseini
"And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion."

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