"I'm not a fatalist; even if I were, what could I do about it?"

“I was shy for several years in my early days in Hollywood until I figured out that no one really gave a damn if I was shy or not, and I got over my shyness.”
“Anything can be said and, in consequence, written about anything.”
“You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.”

Source : Khaled Hosseini (2009). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.96, Bloomsbury Publishing
“Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?”
“A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more insoluble problems for each succeeding generation can only be called violent.”
“I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.”
“In a way, yes, because I was starting something fresh, and it was something totally independent.”
“There is an old American saying 'He who lives in a glass house should not try to kill two birds with one stone.”

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