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Only curiosity about the fate of others, the ability to put ourselves in their shoes, and the will to enter their world…
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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 others problems…
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I believe in empathy. I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal relationships. I…
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I believe that it is only through empathy, that the pain experienced by an Algerian woman, a North Korean dissident, a Rwandan…
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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 moral issue.
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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 traditions, and…
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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 part of…
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I finally returned to Iran in 1979, when I got my degree in English and American literature, and stayed for 18 years…
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I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I…
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A novel is not moral in the usual sense of the word. It can be called moral when it shakes us out…
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Life shows no trend to complexity in the usual sense-only an asymmetrical expansion of diversity around a starting point constrained to be…
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