“Who am I trying to fool? I'm well aware that at every stage of history there have been crimes against humanity, and they couldn't have happened without humans to commit them. The crimes that have been visited on my children… — Mahmoud Dowlatabadi Copy Share
“What kind of mortuary is this, anyway? It hasn't even got electricity. This sort of town needs more and more of it, what with… — Mahmoud Dowlatabadi Copy Share Image
“They seemed to be high on some lethal drug, but the colonel saw no need to be afraid, for there was nothing left in… — Mahmoud Dowlatabadi Copy Share Image
“I'm a stranger in my own home! The tragedy of our whole country is the same: we are all alienated, strangers in our own land. It's tragic. The odd thing is that we have never got used to it. Yet, woe betide us we do. The irony is that, if you really want to be seen as a good Iranian,… — Mahmoud Dowlatabadi Copy Share
“And in the end you die, but you don't take that feat with you to the grave as you should. No, you pass it… — Mahmoud Dowlatabadi Copy Share Image
“Who am I trying to fool? I'm well aware that at every stage of history there have been crimes against humanity, and they couldn't have happened without humans to commit them. The crimes that have been visited on my children have been committed, and still are being committed, by young people just like them, by people stirring up their delusions,… — Mahmoud Dowlatabadi Copy Share
“Farzaneh was aflame and her wailing melted everyone's hearts. Parvaneh had lost control of herself and was flapping madly around her brother, while Masoud got up off his knees beside his brother, clenched his fists, like two balls of fire, to his head and screamed: ''I'll kill them, I'll kill the bastards who killed my brothers...''. His rallying cry was… — Mahmoud Dowlatabadi Copy Share
“But no-one has the right to undermine or obstruct the hopes and aspirations of the young on the basis of one's own experience. It… — Mahmoud Dowlatabadi Copy Share Image
“People who are drowning in a sea of problems and have lost all sense of self-worth often grasp at egotism and alienation from everything… — Mahmoud Dowlatabadi Copy Share Image
“If you want to retain sanity, the only thing you can do is look on without letting go of your mind, So that is… — Mahmoud Dowlatabadi Copy Share Image
“But a coward cannot kill in cold blood. A coward usually talks about humanity and morals, to hide his fear behind such waffle. Such… — Mahmoud Dowlatabadi Copy Share Image
“A man without hope is nothing but an insect, a mindless creature with no future. And a man without a future can only go… — Mahmoud Dowlatabadi Copy Share Image
