Laura

“Art is no longer snobbish or cowardly. It teaches peasants to use tractors, gives lyrics to young soldiers, designs textiles for factory women’s dresses, writes burlesque for factory theatres, does a hundred other useful tasks. Art is useful as bread.”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

“demonstrators were attacked by the government-backed vigilantes.”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

“Maybe you don’t have to understand.’ She sounded thoughtful. ‘Maybe that’s OK.’ I lifted my head. ‘Really?’ ‘We only find answers when we’re ready to hear them.”
― Jill Childs, Gracie's Secret

“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.”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books