Quotes by : Azar Nafisi

correlation between the growing lack of respect for ideas and the imagination and the increasing gap....

The highest form of morality is not to feel at home in ones own home." Most great works of the imagination....

Nabokov calls every great novel a fairy tale, I said. Well, I would agree. First, let me remind you that....

He is more rooted to the idea of home. He created this home...and established routines like watching....

Most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The....

A novel is not an allegory.... It is the sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that....

And even with the book closed, the voices do not stop--there are echoes and reverberations that seem....

I explained that most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your....

We were thirsty for some form of beauty, even in an incomprehensible, overintellectual, abstract film....

One of the most wonderful things about Pride and Prejudice is the variety of voices it embodies. There....