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
those who judge must take all aspects of an individual's personality into account. — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“The class went all right, and the ones after became easier. I was enthusiastic, naive and idealistic, and I was in love… — Azar Nafisi Book Copy Share Image
“How could God be so cruel as to create a Muslim woman with so much flesh and so little sex appeal?” — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
There is little consolation in the fact that millions of people are unhappier than we are. Why should other people's misery make… — Azar Nafisi Consolation 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
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
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
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order to survive,… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“It is not accidental that the most unsympathetic characters in Austen's novels are those who are incapable of genuine dialogue with others.… — Azar Nafisi 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
“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
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
The crisis besetting America is not just an economic or political crisis; something deeper is wreaking havoc across the land, a mercenary… — Azar Nafisi America 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 American dream Copy Share Image
“We speak of facts, yet facts exist only partially to us if they are not repeated and re-created through emotions, thoughts and… — 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 explained that most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home.… — Azar Nafisi Fiction Copy Share Image
“The feelings I thought I had left behind returned when, almost nineteen years later, the Islamic regime would once again turn against… — Azar Nafisi Left behind 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… — Azar Nafisi Bill of rights Copy Share Image
“Tehran looked the way most of its remaining citizens must have felt: sad, forlorn, and defenseless, yet not without a certain dignity.… — Azar Nafisi Beauty Copy Share Image
“I once heard my father tell a friend that his relationship with my mother reminded him of a story by Attar, the… — Azar Nafisi 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
With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem. — Azar Nafisi 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
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
“ Careless is the first adjective that comes to mind when describing the rich in this novel. The dream they embody is… — Azar Nafisi American dream Copy Share Image
“Curiously, the novels we escaped into led us finally to question and prod our own realities, about which we felt so helplessly… — Azar Nafisi Books 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 America Copy Share Image
For more than 30 years the Islamic regime and its apologists have tried to dismiss women's struggle in Iran as part of… — Azar Nafisi Iran Copy Share Image
“This nation is very strange. It watches tyranny in silence and in time it proves its own will—the fact of its existence—through… — Azar Nafisi Resistance Copy Share Image
“The truth is that James, like many other great writers and artists, had chosen his own loyalties and nationality. His true country,… — Azar Nafisi Art 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 Ancient Copy Share Image
“Our patents' old age shocks us in the same manner that our children's growth to maturity does , but without the joy.” — Azar Nafisi Aging Copy Share Image
Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent. — Azar Nafisi Atrocities Copy Share Image
