Best Azar Nafisi Quotes
- Look at Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution and the slogans that they used: anti-imperialism; anti-colonialism; the struggle of the have-nots against the haves; the state monopoly over… All
- Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in. Born
- The best work of literature to represent the American Dream is 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It shows us how dreaming can be… American
- The stories from Iran's present and past are reminders that freedom, democracy and human rights, or fundamentalism, fascism and terrorism are not geographically and culturally… Culturally
- Unfortunately for governments like that of Iran, when they forbid something, people become more interested. Forbid
- Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending… Benign
- This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging… Ancient
- When I was teaching at the University of Tehran we were struggling against the implementation of the revolution rules. Implementation
- When I first left Iran at the age of 13, Iran had become such a shining star - it was the point to which all… Age
- The existence of the writer is to write, and to write is to tell the truth. Existence
- Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent. Atrocities
- Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past. Deprived
- You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place, I told him, like you'll not only miss the people you love but… Change
- You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and… Adultery
- Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search… Any
- A novel is not an allegory.... It is the sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the… Able
- There is little consolation in the fact that millions of people are unhappier than we are. Why should other people's misery make us happier or… Consolation
- We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle. Accused
- Most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced us… Always Forced
- Reality has become so intolerable, she said, so bleak, that all I can paint now are the colors of my dreams. All
- When I walked down the streets, I asked myself, are these my people?, is this my hometown, am I who I am? Asked
- those who judge must take all aspects of an individual's personality into account. Account
- i could have told him to learn from Gatsby. from the lonely, isolated Gatsby, who also tried to retrieve his past and give flash and… Blood
- Memories have ways of becoming independent of the reality they evoke. They can soften us against those we were deeply hurt by or they can… Accepted
- Once evil is individualized, becoming part of everyday life, the way of resisting it also becomes individual. How does the soul survive? is the essential… Becomes