I've read that if an avalanche buries you and you're lying there underneath all that snow, you can't … - Khaled Hosseini

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I don't think boxing took more from me then I got in return. It gave me everything that I took from it. It was all fair.

Khaled Hosseini

I've read that if an avalanche buries you and you're lying there underneath all that snow, you can't tell which way is up or down. You want to dig yourself out but pick the wrong way, and you dig yourself to your own demise.

Avalanche, Demise, Lying, Snow, Underneath

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it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.

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One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.

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Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every person is crippled in his or her own way by our inability to truly present ourselves to the world.

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It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.

Course, Day, Days, Life, May, Sometimes

You are never alone in Afghanistan. You are always in the company of others, usually family. You don't understand yourself really as an individual, you understand yourself as part of something bigger than yourself. Family is so central to your identity, to how you make sense of your world, it is very dramatic, and therefore an amazing source of storytelling, a source of fiction for me.

Bigger, Fiction, Identity, Sense, Usually, World

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Christ bears with the saints' imperfections; well may the saints one with another.

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I can't sing worth a lick, so I don't know if I would be allowed in the ["The Mickey Mouse Club"].

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Our country asserts for itself the glory of being the freest upon the surface of the globe. . . but one dark spot still dimmed its lustre. Domestic slavery existed among a people who had themselves disdained to submit to a master.

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Nick Cave

When I start writing songs, and they come easily, I'm always very suspicious. That usually means they're reminding me of something I've already done before. When the songs become unsettling, and I feel anxious about what I'm doing, that usually means it's going to be more interesting later on when we actually record the stuff.

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