"A novel is not an allegory.... It is the sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the characters and become involved in their destiny, you won't be able to empathize, and empathy is at the heart of the novel. This is how you read a novel: you inhale the experience. So start breathing."

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Source : Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.111, Random House

Azar Nafisi

#Heart Quotes #Character Quotes #Destiny Quotes

“And it can keep you as busy as anything else, and happier.”
“Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone.”
“Effect should come first. Method second.”
“When I do a film that has nothing to do with Kurt Weill, then I am happy, I am on my own. But in a Kurt Weill work I am as nervous as a cat. A burden falls on my shoulders. I feel a crushing responsibility.”
“Language is not made to be believed but to be obeyed, and to compel obedience newspapers, news, proceed by redundancy, in that they tell us what we â€˜mustâ€™ think, retain, expect, etc. language is neither informational nor communicational. It is not the communication of information but something quite different: the transmission of order-words, either from one statement to another or within each statement, insofar as each statement accomplishes an act and the act is accomplished in the statement”
“So take my advice: whatever you do? Donâ€™t blink”
“It is totally different. But once we went to 12 teams, that's just the way it was going to be. It's just a reality. But I don't think it's beyond the realm of possibility that some team can win four games in four days and win the whole thing.”
“I am always a great fan of keeping things on an eye level for comedy because it plays better.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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