America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry? — Azar Nafisi America Copy Share Image
The existence of the writer is to write, and to write is to tell the truth. — Azar Nafisi Existence Copy Share Image
You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist. — Azar Nafisi Imagination Copy Share Image
“She had the satisfaction, so beloved of dictators, of a permanent state of emergency.” — Azar Nafisi Satisfaction 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
“I wish wish I could steal the intricacies of language. But give my kids a break—remember, most of them were fed on… — Azar Nafisi Language Copy Share Image
“The more I discovered the lyrical quality of our lives, the more my own life became a web of fiction.” — Azar Nafisi Life Copy Share Image
Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“Other people's sorrows and joys have a way of reminding us of our own; we partly empathize with them because we ask… — Azar Nafisi Anguish 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
“After all, it takes two to create a relationship, and when you make half the population invisible, the other half suffers as… — Azar Nafisi Relationship Copy Share Image
“Whoever fights monsters,” Nietzsche had said, “should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when… — Azar Nafisi Monster Copy Share Image
“...these sleepless nights, when oddly enough my concentration was high, fueled perhaps by the effort to ignore the all-engrossing threat of bombs… — Azar Nafisi Bombs Copy Share Image
Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions,… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“Did you ever dream this could happen to us? He said, No I didn't, but I should have. After we all helped… — Azar Nafisi Israel 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
It is only through literature that one can put oneself in someone else’s shoes and understand the other’s different and contradictory sides… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
After the rigged Iranian presidential elections in 2009, the Islamic regime attacked the 'humanities' as the main source of protests, the most… — Azar Nafisi America Copy Share Image
I believe that it is only through empathy, that the pain experienced by an Algerian woman, a North Korean dissident, a Rwandan… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“Again and again as we discussed Lolita in that class, our discussions were colored by my students' hidden personal sorrows and joys.… — Azar Nafisi Lolita Copy Share Image
“A novel is not an allegory, I said as the period was about to come to an end. It is the sensual… — Azar Nafisi Another world Copy Share Image
“The most important result of the encounter [in the preceding anecdote] is the scholar's startling discovery of the roundness of the earth… — Azar Nafisi Nature 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
“The truth was that upsilamba was one of Nabokovs fascinating creations, possibly a word he invented. I said I associate Upsilamba with… — Azar Nafisi Truth 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
“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
“It is also about loss, about the perishability of dreams once they are transformed into hard reality. It is the longing, its… — Azar Nafisi Destroying yourself 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 Abstraction Copy Share Image
“This is Tehran for me: its absences were more real than its presences” — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“I no longer believe that we can keep silent. We never really do, mind you.” — 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
Well, that was in 1995 when I resigned from my last academic job. — Azar Nafisi Academic 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
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
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