"A novel is not moral in the usual sense of the word. It can be called moral when it shakes us out of our stupor and makes us confront the absolutes we believe in."

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Source : Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.129, Random House

Azar Nafisi

#Believe Quotes #Usual Quotes #Moral Quotes

“New Yorkers are stuck in a gloomy mucilage of mutual commiseration.”
“One form of loneliness is to have a memory and no one to share it with.”

Source : Phyllis Rose (1991). “Never Say Goodbye: Essays”, Nan A. Talese
“Sometimes you have to let go of the one you love to find out if there is really something there. Sometimes you won't let go of love. More times love won't let go of you. That bitter word, which closed all earthly friendships and finished every feast of love farewell!”
“There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports.”
“If unable to abstain from drinking, a man may get drunk three times a month; if he does it more than three times he is culpable; if he gets drunk twice a month it is better; if once a month, this is still more laudable; and if one does not drink at all what can be better? But where can I find such a man? If such a man were found he would be worthy of the highest esteem.”
“There is that great proverb â€” that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.”
“The allotted function of art is not, as is often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as an example. The aim of art is to prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his soul, rendering it capable of turning to good”

Source : "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 42), 1986.
“Itâ€™s only a scratch, donâ€™t cut my arm off!”

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