"Art is no longer snobbish or cowardly. It……" — Azar Nafisi
"Art is no longer snobbish or cowardly. It teaches peasants to use tractors, gives lyrics to young soldiers, designs textiles for factory women's dresses, writes burlesque for factory theatres, does a hundred other useful tasks. Art is as usueful as bread."
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74 Quotes by Azar Nafisi
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Only curiosity about the fate of others, the ability to put ourselves in their shoes, and the will to enter…
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Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels-the biggest sin is to be blind to…
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I believe in empathy. I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal…
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I believe that it is only through empathy, that the pain experienced by an Algerian woman, a North Korean dissident,…
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You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.
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Living in the Islamic Republic is like having sex with someone you loathe.
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A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that…
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America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?
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Every culture has something to be ashamed of, but every culture also has the right to change, to challenge negative…
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For more than 30 years the Islamic regime and its apologists have tried to dismiss women's struggle in Iran as…
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I finally returned to Iran in 1979, when I got my degree in English and American literature, and stayed for…
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I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its…
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