"Nima Shirazi is a rare voice of rational analysis and political insight that provides an eloquent counter to the pervasive absurdities that make up popular political discourse."

-- Susan Abulhawa

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“We live in a celebrity-obsessed society.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I am a runner. That's what I do. That's who I am. Running is all I know, or want, or care about.”
“Be my brother or I will kill you.”
“You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest . . .”

Source : "The Dirge of Alaric, the Visigoth". The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, Volume V, No. 25, January-June 1823.
“We fear death so profoundly, not because it means the end of our body, but because it means the end of our consciousness - better to be a spirit in Heaven than a zombie on Earth.”
“Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own; a power transcending all limit and privacy, and by virtue of which a man is the conductor of the whole river of electricity.”
“I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.”
“The Mother of the universe is the Mother of all. From Her have come out both good and evil.”

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