If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order to survive, to protect some aspect of myself that was now in constant retreat.
I'm a perfectly equipped failure. - Azar Nafisi
I'm a perfectly equipped failure.
- Azar Nafisi
You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and m… - Azar Nafisi
You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and m…
I believe in empathy. I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal relationships. I am a write… - Azar Nafisi
I believe in empathy. I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal relationships. I am a write…
Look at Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution and the slogans that they used: anti-imperialism; anti-colonialism; the struggle of the have-nots against the… - Azar Nafisi
Look at Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution and the slogans that they used: anti-imperialism; anti-colonialism; the struggle of the have-nots against the…
Every culture has something to be ashamed of, but every culture also has the right to change, to challenge negative traditions, and create to new one… - Azar Nafisi
Every culture has something to be ashamed of, but every culture also has the right to change, to challenge negative traditions, and create to new one…
Living in the Islamic Republic is like having sex with someone you loathe. - Azar Nafisi
Living in the Islamic Republic is like having sex with someone you loathe.
The existence of the writer is to write, and to write is to tell the truth. - Azar Nafisi
The existence of the writer is to write, and to write is to tell the truth.
Only curiosity about the fate of others, the ability to put ourselves in their shoes, and the will to enter their world through the magic of imaginat… - Azar Nafisi
Only curiosity about the fate of others, the ability to put ourselves in their shoes, and the will to enter their world through the magic of imaginat…
A novel is not an allegory.... It is the sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the characters and… - Azar Nafisi
A novel is not an allegory.... It is the sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the characters and…
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