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He said that if culture is a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the rooms inside. Without it, he said, you ended up wayward, without a proper home or a legitimate identity.

He said that if culture is a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the rooms inside. Without it, he said, you ended up wayward, without a proper home or a legitimate identity.

Khaled Hosseini
Home, Keys, Doors
Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.362, A&C Black

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

Khaled Hosseini
Real, Home, Self
Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.292, A&C Black

The bulk of our efforts [in The Khaled Hosseini Foundation] has focused on helping build permanent shelters for returning refugees who are homeless, living out in the open or in makeshift homes. This is an area of urgent need as Afghanistan's natural elements are quite harsh, with very hot summers, and freezing winters.

Khaled Hosseini
Summer, Home, Winter
Source: www.wired.com

My wife is my in-home editor and reads everything I write.

Khaled Hosseini
Home, Writing, Editors

Educate yourself, learn about what refugees face when they don't have homes, after they have lost everything.

Khaled Hosseini
Home, Faces, Lost Everything
"Web Exclusive Interview: Kite Runner author Khaled Hosseini to Speak on Refugee Crisis at Event in Lafayette". Interview with Peter Crooks, www.diablomag.com. April 2009.

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