Azar Nafisi Quotes - Page 2

• Unfortunately for governments like that of Iran, when they forbid something, people become more interested.

  Azar Nafisi

  Government, Iran, People

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. February 5, 2004.

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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 a western ploy.

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  Struggle, Islamic, Iran

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• Poor reading, like poor writing, is imposing what you already know on texts. You should go into reading to discover, not to reaffirm what you know.

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  Reading, Writing, Poor

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• 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.

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  Reading, Reality, Discovery

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• The revolution taught me not to be consoled by other people's miseries, not to feel thankful because so many others had suffered more. Pain and loss, like love and joy, are unique and personal; they cannot be modified by comparison to others.

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  Dolor, Pérdida, Único

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• After the rigged Iranian presidential elections in 2009, the Islamic regime attacked the 'humanities' as the main source of protests, the most effective tool used by the West, especially America, to corrupt and incite Iranian youth, and finally closed down all the Humanities departments in Iran's universities.

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  Islamic, America, Iran

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• 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.

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  Reality, Perfection, Speechless

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• When I walked down the streets, I asked myself, are these my people?, is this my hometown, am I who I am?

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  Who I Am, People, Hometown

  Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.74, Random House

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

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  Reality, Limits, Fairy Tale

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

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• She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.

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  Honesty, People, Honest

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• I am suddenly left alone again on the sunny path, with a memory of the rain.

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  Memories, Rain, Path

  Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.59, Random House

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• I think Islam is in a sense, in crisis. It needs to question and re-question itself.

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  Thinking, Islam, Needs

  Interview with David Brancaccio, www.pbs.org. June 20, 2003.

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• 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.

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  Home, Imagination, Expectations

  Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.94, Random House

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• 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.

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  Dream, Lonely, Past

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

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• None of us can avoid being contaminated by the world's evils; it's all a matter of what attitude you take towards them.

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  Attitude, Evil, World

  Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.330, Random House

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• When I was teaching at the University of Tehran we were struggling against the implementation of the revolution rules.

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  Struggle, Teaching, Revolution

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• De este modo, el régimen ha privado a las mujeres iraníes no sólo de sus derechos actuales, sino también de su historia y su pasado.

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  Past, Rights, Regimes

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• Art is as useful as bread.

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  Art, Bread, Art Is

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• The more we die, the stronger we will become

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  Stronger, Dies

  Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.104, Random House

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• We in ancient countries have our past- we obsess over the past. They, the Americans, have a dream: they feel nostalgia about the promise of the future.

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  Dream, Country, Past

  Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.109, Random House

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• 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.

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  Giving, Needs, Want

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

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• It is only through literature that one can put oneself in someone else’s shoes and understand the other’s different and contradictory sides and refrain from becoming too ruthless. Outside the sphere of literature only one aspect of individuals is revealed. But if you understand their different dimensions you cannot easily murder them.

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  Shoes, Different, Literature

  "Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books". Book by Azar Nafisi, www.sfgate.com. 2003.

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• With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem.

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  Self Esteem, Lying, Matter

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

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• Once evil is individualized, becoming part of everyday life, the way of resisting it also becomes individual. How does the soul survive? is the essential question. And the response is: through love and imagination.

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  Evil, Imagination, Soul

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• those who judge must take all aspects of an individual's personality into account.

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  Judging, Personality, Individual

  Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.118, Random House

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