People in the countryside carry a sense of dignity. They wear it, don't they? Like a badge? I'm being genuine.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that people from the countryside embody a deep sense of dignity that is visibly expressed in their demeanor.
Khaled Hosseini highlights the innate dignity possessed by individuals in the countryside, presenting it as a significant aspect of their identity. This dignity, akin to a badge, is not merely a superficial trait but reflects authenticity and genuine character, emphasizing the value of simplicity and self-respect inherent in rural life.
In practice
In a speech on rural values, one might say, 'As Khaled Hosseini observed, people in the countryside carry a sense of dignity that reflects their genuine character.'
You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.
There was brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that even time could not break. - Amir
I don't outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in. I like the element of surprise and spontaneity, of letting the story find its own way.
And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.
The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.
We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.
Does the open wound in another's breast soften the pain of the gaping wound in our own? Or does the blood which is welling from another man's side staunch that which is pouring from our own? Does the general anguish of our fellow creatures lessen our own private and particular anguish? No, no, each suffers on his own account, each struggles with his own grief, each sheds his own tears.
It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. This statement is almost a tautology. For the energy of operation of a proposition in an occasion of experience is its interest and is its importance. But of course a true proposition is more apt to be interesting than a false one.
Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing's hypothetical.
The doctrine of immortality rests upon human affection. We love; therefore, we wish to live.
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