Quotes of Azar Nafisi - somelinesforyou

“ 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 marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the selfrighteousness that sees morality in fixed formulas about good and evil. ”

- Azar Nafisi

“ Most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced us to question what we took for granted. It questioned traditions and expectations when they seemed to immutable. ”

- Azar Nafisi

“ Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth. ”

- 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 become involved in their destiny, you won't be able to empathize, and empathy is at the heart of the novel. This is how you read a novel: you inhale the experience. So start breathing. ”

- Azar Nafisi

“ Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth. ”

- 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 become involved in their destiny, you won't be able to empathize, and empathy is at the heart of the novel. This is how you read a novel: you inhale the experience. So start breathing. ”

- Azar Nafisi

“ Many times I tell my American students my Iranian students understood how valuable is because they had been deprived of it. Sometimes in the West we need to be reminded of the fact that blood has been paid for what we have. ”

- Azar Nafisi

“ I would like to think of my own status as what you called 'citizen of the world' or a 'citizen of a portable world,' if not of the world. ”

- Azar Nafisi

“ The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes. Dancing with your jailer, participating in your own execution, that is an act of utmost brutality. ”

- Azar Nafisi

“ Many times I tell my American students my Iranian students understood how valuable is because they had been deprived of it. Sometimes in the West we need to be reminded of the fact that blood has been paid for what we have. ”

- Azar Nafisi

“ The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes. Dancing with your jailer, participating in your own execution, that is an act of utmost brutality. ”

- Azar Nafisi

“ Whenever religion, no matter where it comes from, when it claims to spread the word of God through State it becomes dangerous. ”

- Azar Nafisi

“ Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in. ”

- Azar Nafisi

“ Many times I tell my American students my Iranian students understood how valuable is because they had been deprived of it. Sometimes in the West we need to be reminded of the fact that blood has been paid for what we have. ”

- Azar Nafisi

“ I would like to think of my own status as what you called 'citizen of the world' or a 'citizen of a portable world,' if not of the world. ”

- Azar Nafisi

“ Many times I tell my American students my Iranian students understood how valuable is because they had been deprived of it. Sometimes in the West we need to be reminded of the fact that blood has been paid for what we have. ”

- Azar Nafisi

“ Whenever religion, no matter where it comes from, when it claims to spread the word of God through State it becomes dangerous. ”

- Azar Nafisi

“ I would like to think of my own status as what you called 'citizen of the world' or a 'citizen of a portable world,' if not of the world. ”

- Azar Nafisi

“ The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes. Dancing with your jailer, participating in your own execution, that is an act of utmost brutality. ”

- Azar Nafisi

“ Many times I tell my American students my Iranian students understood how valuable is because they had been deprived of it. Sometimes in the West we need to be reminded of the fact that blood has been paid for what we have. ”

- Azar Nafisi

“ I would like to think of my own status as what you called 'citizen of the world' or a 'citizen of a portable world,' if not of the world. ”

- Azar Nafisi

“ The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes. Dancing with your jailer, participating in your own execution, that is an act of utmost brutality. ”

- Azar Nafisi

“ The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes. Dancing with your jailer, participating in your own execution, that is an act of utmost brutality. ”

- Azar Nafisi

“ Many times I tell my American students my Iranian students understood how valuable is because they had been deprived of it. Sometimes in the West we need to be reminded of the fact that blood has been paid for what we have. ”

- Azar Nafisi

“ The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes. Dancing with your jailer, participating in your own execution, that is an act of utmost brutality. ”

- Azar Nafisi
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