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Khatami is a symptom and not the cause of change in Iran.
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It takes courage to die for a cause, but also to live for one.
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Living in the Islamic Republic is like having sex with someone you loathe.
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The dearer a book was to my heart, the more battered and bruised it became.
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I am suddenly left alone again on the sunny path, with a memory of the rain.
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Those who judge must take all aspects of an individual's personality into account.
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We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
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With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem.
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When I walked down the streets, I asked myself, are these my people?, is this my hometown, am I who I am?
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Reality has become so intolerable, she said, so bleak, that all I can paint now are the colors of my dreams.
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This, I believe, is how the villain in modern fiction is born: a creature without compassion, without empathy.
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None of us can avoid being contaminated by the world's evils; it's all a matter of what attitude you take towards them.
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It is amazing how, when all possibilities seem to be taken away from you, the minutest opening can become a great freedom.
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Every great work of art... is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life.
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I have a recurring fantasy that one more article has been added to the Bill of Rights: the right to free access to imagination.
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Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies.
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We in ancient countries have our past- we obsess over the past. They, the Americans, have a dream: they feel nostalgia about the promise of the future.
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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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I no longer believe that we can keep silent. We never really do, mind you. In one way or another we articulate what has happened to us through the kind of people we become.
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If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order to survive, to protect some aspect of myself that was now in constant retreat.
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Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels — the biggest sin is to be blind to others' problems and pains. Not seeing them means denying their existence.
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Do not, under any circumstances belittle a works of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
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December 1, 1948
(age 75)
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