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One Quotes by Azar Nafisi
- I have a recurring fantasy that one more article has been added to the Bill of Rights: the right to free access to imagination.
- She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.
- 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 from…
- It takes courage to die for a cause, but also to live for one.
- A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a voice; in this…
- I no longer believe that we can keep silent. We never really do, mind you. In one way or another we articulate what has happened…
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