Azar Nafisi Quotes About Reality

• 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

  Real, Trying, Fiction

  Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.3, Random House

• Memories have ways of becoming independent of the reality they evoke. They can soften us against those we were deeply hurt by or they can make us resent those we once accepted and loved unconditionally.

  Azar Nafisi

  Hurt, Memories, Independent

  "Lectura de Lolita en Teherán". Libro de Azar Nafisi, 2003.

• Reality has become so intolerable, she said, so bleak, that all I can paint now are the colors of my dreams.

  Azar Nafisi

  Dream, Reality, Color

  Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.11, Random House

• Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies.

  Azar Nafisi

  Reality, Limits, Fairy Tale

  Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.47, Random House

• En todas las grandes obras de ficción, independientemente de la cruda realidad que presentan, hay una afirmación de la vida contra la fugacidad de esa vida, un desafío esencial. Esta afirmación reside en la forma en que el autor se apodera de la realidad al volver a contarla a su manera, creando así un mundo nuevo. Toda gran obra de arte, declararía pomposamente, es una celebración, un acto de insubordinación contra las traiciones, los horrores y las infidelidades de la vida. La perfección y la belleza de la forma se rebelan contra la fealdad y la bajeza del tema.

  Azar Nafisi

  Art, Betrayal, Lying

• The novels were an escape from reality in the sense that we could marvel at their beauty and perfection. Curiously, the novels we escaped into led us finally to question and prod our own realities, about which we felt so helplessly speechless.

  Azar Nafisi

  Reality, Perfection, Speechless

• No leemos para convertir grandes obras de ficción en réplicas simplistas de nuestras propias realidades, leemos por el placer puro, sensual y no adulterado de la lectura. Y si lo hacemos, nuestra recompensa es el descubrimiento de las muchas capas ocultas en estas obras que no se limitan a reflejar la realidad, sino que revelan un espectro de verdades, yendo así intrínsecamente a contracorriente de las mentalidades totalitarias.

  Azar Nafisi

  Reading, Reality, Discovery

• Visa for Avalon is a testament to the power of fiction. It illuminates the truth at the heart of what is commonly called reality. This account of lives transformed and ruined by the triumph of a totalitarian rule is a timely reminder of how moral and intellectual laziness and apathy can pave the road to the reign of terror brought on by such a system.

  Azar Nafisi

  Heart, Reality, Intellectual

• What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth.

  Azar Nafisi

  Reality, Fiction, Epiphany

  Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.3, Random House

• The best work of literature to represent the American Dream is 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It shows us how dreaming can be tainted by reality, and that if you don't compromise, you may suffer.

  Azar Nafisi

  Dream, Reality, Suffering

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