“I turned on the flashlight; it cut a small circle of light from the darkness around me.” — Azar Nafisi Darkness Copy Share Image
The dearer a book was to my heart, the more battered and bruised it became. — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in. — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
I am suddenly left alone again on the sunny path, with a memory of the rain. — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Living in the Islamic Republic is like having sex with someone you loathe. — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle. — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
those who judge must take all aspects of an individual's personality into account. — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
I finally returned to Iran in 1979, when I got my degree in English and American literature, and stayed for 18 years… — Azar Nafisi American literature Copy Share Image
When I first left Iran at the age of 13, Iran had become such a shining star - it was the point… — Azar Nafisi Age Copy Share Image
I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I… — Azar Nafisi America Copy Share Image
Reality has become so intolerable, she said, so bleak, that all I can paint now are the colors of my dreams. — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time. — Azar Nafisi Heart Copy Share Image
With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem. — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
I would like to say how much I resent people who say of the Islamic Republic that this is our culture -… — Azar Nafisi Age Copy Share Image
“It was one of the only times in my teaching career that I got angry and showed it in class. I was… — Azar Nafisi Anger Copy Share Image
People would react to books by authors like James and Austen almost on a gut level. I think it was not so… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Art is no longer snobbish or cowardly. It teaches peasants to use tractors, gives lyrics to young soldiers, designs textiles for factory… — Azar Nafisi Art Copy Share Image
“I searched modern fiction and poetry for clues to how we confronted and evaded reality, how we articulated our experience and turned… — Azar Nafisi Contemporary literature Copy Share Image
You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place, I told him, like you'll not only miss the people… — Azar Nafisi Change Copy Share Image
The biggest crime in Nabokov's 'Lolita' is imposing your own dream upon someone else's reality. Humbert Humbert is blind. He doesn't see… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Visa for Avalon is a testament to the power of fiction. It illuminates the truth at the heart of what is commonly… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“I have now become something of an expert in the ways of “decisive” men. They are not firm, they just seem to… — Azar Nafisi Confident Copy Share Image
“A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness… — Azar Nafisi Books Copy Share Image
“Such an act [testifying for an accused prison guard of the Shah's regime] can only be accomplished by someone who is engrossed… — Azar Nafisi Books Copy Share Image
I believe in empathy. I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal relationships. I… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“We were thirsty for some form of beauty, even in an incomprehensible, overintellectual, abstract film with no subtitles and censored out of… — Azar Nafisi Art Copy Share Image
“You ask me what it means to be irrelevant? The feeling is akin to visiting your old house as a wandering ghost… — Azar Nafisi Business Copy Share Image
“I told them this novel was an American classic, in many ways the quintessential American novel. There were other contenders: The Adventures… — Azar Nafisi American dream Copy Share Image
In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience… — Azar Nafisi Affirmation Copy Share Image
“That first day I asked my students what they thought fiction should accomplish, why one should bother to read fiction at all.… — Azar Nafisi Books Copy Share Image
“He was the type of person who was always on the periphery of one's attention, not outstanding for being handsome or intelligent… — Azar Nafisi Qualities Copy Share Image
“We envy people like you, and we want to be you; we can't, so we destroy you.” — Azar Nafisi Envy Copy Share Image
“Living in the Islamic Republic is like having sex with a man you loathe.” — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“She had the satisfaction, so beloved of dictators, of a permanent state of emergency.” — Azar Nafisi Satisfaction Copy Share Image
I think Islam is in a sense, in crisis. It needs to question and re-question itself. — Azar Nafisi Crisis Copy Share Image
Well, that was in 1995 when I resigned from my last academic job. — Azar Nafisi Academic Copy Share Image
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