Quotes by Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran

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You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such a — Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what w — Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
...these sleepless nights, when oddly enough my concentration was high, fueled perhaps by the effort to ignore the all-e — Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
I was reminded of a painter friend who had started her career by depicting scenes from life, mainly deserted rooms, aban — Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place...like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll — Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
Only Catherine has the capacity to change and mature, although here...our heroine pays a dear price for this change. And — Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
We were thirsty for some form of beauty, even in an incomprehensible, overintellectual, abstract film with no subtitles — Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that r — Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
I explained that most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The b — Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
And even with the book closed, the voices do not stop--there are echoes and reverberations that seem to leap off the pag — Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
Both Yassi and I know that we have been losing our faith. We have been questioning it with every move. During the Shah's — Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
Living in the Islamic Republic is like having sex with someone you loathe. — Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
Once evil is individualized, becoming part of everyday life, the way of resisting it also becomes individual. How does t — Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
The highest form of morality is not to feel at home in ones own home." Most great works of the imagination were meant to — Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
Those who judge must take all aspects of an individual's personality into account. It is only through literature that on — Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
Nabokov calls every great novel a fairy tale, I said. Well, I would agree. First, let me remind you that fairy tales abo — Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
The truth is that James, like many other great writers and artists, had chosen his own loyalties and nationality. His tr — Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
We were all victims of the arbitrary nature of a totalitarian regime that constantly intruded into the most private corn — Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
My toe as a lethal weapon! — Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
It was one of the only times in my teaching career that I got angry and showed it in class. I was young and inexperience — Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran