Quote by Azar Nafisi
When I first left Iran at the age of 13, Iran had become such a sh

When I first left Iran at the age of 13, Iran had become such a shining star – it was the point to which all my desires and dreams returned. – Azar Nafisi

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America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry? – Azar Nafisi

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I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality. – Azar Nafisi

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I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams…. Man… is above all the plaything of his memory. – Andre Breton, “Manifesto of Surrealism,” 1924

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It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. – Virginia Woolf

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I love to work with the younger kids who are trying to live out their dreams, if in fact thats what they plan on doing after college to take the next step. A very select few have that opportunity so when you do have the opportunity you know, those guys take advantage of it. – Roger Clemens

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Ill see you in my dreams. – Gus Kahn

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