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  1. Azar Nafisi _ The Republic of Imagination:

    Had I been able to formulate my first impressions of the United States, I might have said that there was a place in America called Kansas, where people could find a magic land at the heart of a cyclone.
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  2. Azar Nafisi _ The Republic of Imagination:

    Between my first book tour, in 2003, and the next one, in 2009, many of the places I visited had undergone a significant transformation or vanished: Cody's in Berkeley, seven branch libraries in Philadelphia, twelve of the fourteen bookstores in Harvard Square, Harry W. Schwartz in Milwaukee and, in my own hometown of Washington, D.C., Olsson's and Chapters.
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  3. Azar Nafisi _ The Republic of Imagination:

    {T}he most difficult part of the fight is not taking aim at the enemy, but rejecting his definition of you.
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  4. Azar Nafisi _ The Republic of Imagination:

    These people," he had said with his inscrutable smile, "are different from us. They don't care about books and such things.
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  5. Azar Nafisi _ The Republic of Imagination:

    Why do tyrants understand the dangers of a democratic imagination more than our policy makers appreciate its necessity?
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  6. Azar Nafisi _ The Republic of Imagination:

    Primo Levi once said, "I write in order to rejoin the community of mankind." Reading is a private act, but it joins us across continents and time."
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  7. Azar Nafisi _ The Republic of Imagination:

    Those who can afford private schooling need not worry about their children being deprived of art, music and literature in the classroom: they are more sheltered, for now, from the doctrine of efficiency that has been radically refashioning the public school curriculum.
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  8. Azar Nafisi _ The Republic of Imagination:

    correlation between the growing lack of respect for ideas and the imagination and the increasing gap between rich and poor in America, reflected not just in the gulf between the salaries of CEOs and their employees but also in the high cost of education, the incredible divide between private and public schools that makes all of the fine speeches by our policy makers- most of whom send their children to private schools anyway, just as they enjoy the benefits and perks of their jobs as servants of the people- all the more insidious and insincere.
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  9. Azar Nafisi _ The Republic of Imagination:

    I blame my generation for having neglected to teach our children that in life there are no safe places, that safety is an illusion. "Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark," Baldwin said in an interview in 1961.
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  10. Azar Nafisi _ The Republic of Imagination:

    Einstein was articulate and well-read, a lover of classical music, and it was he who said, "I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world
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  11. Azar Nafisi _ The Republic of Imagination:

    Teaching is a funny business; you want to share these glimpses of something real and profound, but half the time students want only to know their next assignment and what they will need to study for the test.
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  12. Azar Nafisi _ The Republic of Imagination:

    {A} great novel will allow you to transcend the social, racial and political limitations imposed by the vicissitudes of life and to find a deep fraternity based on empathy.
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