About author
- Author's profession: Politician
- Nationality: american
- Born: July 13, 1935
- Died: May 2, 2009
Related Authors
Topics
Quotes currently Trending
![Ville Valo quote: "There's always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do..."](/pic/146737/600x316/quotation-ville-valo-theres-always-reasons-to-make-mistakes-because.jpg)
![W. Somerset Maugham quote: "It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty..."](/pic/169545/600x316/quotation-w-somerset-maugham-it-seems-that-the-creative-faculty-and-the.jpg)
A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.
George Orwell
The highest form of morality is not to feel at home in ones own home." Most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced us to question what we took for granted. It questioned traditions and expectations when they seemed too immutable. I told my students I wanted them in their readings to consider in what ways these works unsettled them, made them a little uneasy, made them look around and consider the world, like...
Azar Nafisi