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Azar Nafisi
Iranian
Writer
Born:
1955
Also
Culture
Past
People
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You
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The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream.
Azar Nafisi
Success
People
Vision
Negative
Side
Destroys
Dream
Cost
Pursue
American
Any
American Dream
Which
Turn
America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?
Azar Nafisi
Vision
Will
Poetic
Poetry
Loses
America
Happen
Based
Unfortunately for governments like that of Iran, when they forbid something, people become more interested.
Azar Nafisi
People
Become
Something
More
Something People
Like
Forbid
Iran
Governments
Unfortunately
Interested
You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.
Azar Nafisi
Future
You
Imagination
Exist
Order
Need
Imagine
Well, that was in 1995 when I resigned from my last academic job.
Azar Nafisi
Job
Academic
Well
Resigned
Last
A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.
Azar Nafisi
You
Think
Bad
Moral
Moral Issue
About
Take
Never
Most
Make
Issue
Author
Just
Want
Ever
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.
Azar Nafisi
Freedom
Democracy
Terrorism
Rights
Past
Human Rights
Determined
Reminders
Iran
Human
Stories
Fascism
Fundamentalism
Present
Universal
I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality.
Azar Nafisi
Soul
People
See
Superficiality
About
Poetry
Attention
Polarization
Talk
Undermine
America
Then
Paying
Who
I finally returned to Iran in 1979, when I got my degree in English and American literature, and stayed for 18 years in the Islamic republic.
Azar Nafisi
Degree
Finally
Stayed
Returned
Islamic
Islamic Republic
Got
Years
Iran
American
Literature
Republic
American Literature
English
When I first left Iran at the age of 13, Iran had become such a shining star - it was the point to which all my desires and dreams returned.
Azar Nafisi
Dreams
Age
First
Become
Point
Had
Returned
Iran
Shining
Left
Which
Star
Desires
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