Azar Nafisi Quotes - Page 4

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• A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.

  Azar Nafisi

  Thinking, Issues, Want

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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.

  Azar Nafisi

  Giving, Needs, Want

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

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• The stories from Iran's present and past are reminders that freedom, democracy and human rights, or fundamentalism, fascism and terrorism are not geographically and culturally determined, but universal.

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  Past, Rights, Iran

  "Iran’s Women: Canaries in the Coal Mine" by Azar Nafisi, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2010.

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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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• We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

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  Pay, Crime, Settling

  Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.119, Random House

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