Azar Nafisi Quotes About Giving

• I believe that it is only through empathy, that the pain experienced by an Algerian woman, a North Korean dissident, a Rwandan child or an Iraqi prisoner, becomes real to me and not just passing news. And it is at times like this when I ask myself, am I prepared - like Huck Finn - to give up Sunday school heaven for the kind of hell that Huck chose?

  Azar Nafisi

  Children, Giving Up, Pain

• 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.

  Azar Nafisi

  Arte, Escritura, Dar

• The reason I am so popular is that I give others back what they need to find in themselves. You need me not because I tell you what I want you to do but because I articulate and justify what you want to do.

  Azar Nafisi

  Giving, Needs, Want

  Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.182, Random House

• i could have told him to learn from Gatsby. from the lonely, isolated Gatsby, who also tried to retrieve his past and give flash and blood to a fancy, a dream that was never meant to be more than a dream.

  Azar Nafisi

  Dream, Lonely, Past

  Azar Nafisi (2015). “Reading Lolita in Tehran”, p.118, Penguin UK

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