Quotes About Nafisi

Poshlust, Nabokov explains, is not only the obviously trashy but mainly the falsely important, the falsely beautiful, the falsely clever, the falsely attractive.

curiosity is insubordination in its purest form"—the verdict against my father came to my mind.

Much later, when I read a sentence by Nabokov—"curiosity is insubordination in its purest form