Quotes by : Azar Nafisi

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....

The truth is that James, like many other great writers and artists, had chosen his own loyalties and....

She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable....

I went on and on, and as I continued, I became more righteous in my indignation. It was the sort of anger....

Those who are close to us, when they die, divide our world. There is the world of the living, which we....

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

Both Yassi and I know that we have been losing our faith. We have been questioning it with every move.....

Other people's sorrows and joys have a way of reminding us of our own; we partly empathize with them....

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