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
America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry? — Azar Nafisi 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 Copy Share Image
The best work of literature to represent the American Dream is 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It shows us how… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“Whoever we were—and it was not really important what religion we belonged to, whether we wished to wear the veil or not,… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
We in ancient countries have our past- we obsess over the past. They, the Americans, have a dream: they feel nostalgia about… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“ Careless is the first adjective that comes to mind when describing the rich in this novel. The dream they embody is… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“One cancels the other, and yet without one, the other is incomplete. In the first photograph, standing there in our black robes… — Azar Nafisi 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 Copy Share Image
“I was reminded of a painter friend who had started her career by depicting scenes from life, mainly deserted rooms, abandoned houses… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“It is also about loss, about the perishability of dreams once they are transformed into hard reality. It is the longing, its… — Azar Nafisi 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
i could have told him to learn from Gatsby. from the lonely, isolated Gatsby, who also tried to retrieve his past and… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“A novel is not an allegory...it is a sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“I have a recurring fantasy that one more article has been added to the Bill of Rights: the right to free access to imagination.… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the ones who had taken it away--become afraid,… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Imagine you are walking down a leafy path…The sun is receding, and you are walking alone, caressed by the breezy light of the late… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order to survive, to protect… — Azar Nafisi 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 in literature,… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
It is only through literature that one can put oneself in someone else’s shoes and understand the other’s different and contradictory sides and refrain… — Azar Nafisi 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. It was… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“you cannot just be stubborn against something, you need to be stubborn for something as well” — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we… — 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 called reality.… — Azar Nafisi 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 with unfinished… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
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