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People would react to books by authors like James and Austen almost on a gut level. I think it was not so much the message, because the best authors do not have obvious messages. These authors were disturbing to my students because of their perspectives on life. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#austen #authors #because #best #books

The biggest crime in Nabokov's 'Lolita' is imposing your own dream upon someone else's reality. Humbert Humbert is blind. He doesn't see Lolita's reality. He doesn't see that Lolita should leave. He only sees Lolita as an extension of his own obsession. This is what a totalitarian state does. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#blind #crime #does #dream #else

Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change. ↗

— Andrew Cohen

#enlightened #everybody #get #nobody #wants

I'm not convinced that what are traditionally considered to be male energies or qualities or female energies or qualities really have as much to do with gender as many people think they do. ↗

— Andrew Cohen

#convinced #energies #female #gender #i

I'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias. ↗

— Andrew Cohen

#approaches #bias #gender #i #kind

The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery. ↗

— Nagarjuna

#cause #down #driven #every #inevitable

What you're getting excited about is not A face, but a feminine face. ↗

— Andrew Cohen

#excited #face #feminine #getting #you

So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts. ↗

— Nagarjuna

#encourage #others #own #praise #their

Ladies and gentlemen, I wish I had better news for you but we are facing a storm that most of us have feared. This is a threat that we've never faced before. ↗

— Ray Nagin

#better #faced #facing #feared #gentlemen

The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience. ↗

— John Cage

#music #anger