Top 14 Persepolis 2 Quotes
#1. As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.
Anna Brownell Jameson
#2. The novels have done so well because the drawings are abstract, black-and-white. This adds to the universality of the story. "Persepolis" also has dreamlike moments, and the drawings help maintain cohesion and consistency.
Marjane Satrapi
#3. Mrs. Strickland was plainly nervous. "Well, tell us your news," she said. "I saw your husband. I'm afraid he's quite made up his mind not to return." I paused a little. "He wants to paint.
W. Somerset Maugham
#4. In reference to Persepolis and all palaces, cities and temples of the past: could these wonders have come into being without that suffering? without the overseer's whip, the slave's fear, the ruler's vanity? was not the monumentality of past epochs created by that which is negative and evil in man?
Ryszard Kapuscinski
#5. Is religion defending our physical integrity or is it just opposed to fashion?
Marjane Satrapi
#6. What others think of us is not our concern - it is their concern ... It is important only that we radiate life. Every individual must be a joy to himself, to his family and to his society.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#7. You hear this story that we're all on the left, but when there's a demonstration, you count how many actors actually come out. If there's a half dozen, that would be a big day.
Paul Haggis
#8. The most natural thing for us is drawing. The characters [in Persepolis] are hand drawn. We're not technical people. We don't know how to type.
Marjane Satrapi
#9. The Germans sell chemical weapons to Iran and Iraq. The wounded are then sent to Germany to be treated. Veritable human guinea pigs.
Marjane Satrapi
#11. With live-action I think we'd have lost the universal appeal of the Persepolis story. With live-action, it would have turned into a story of 'the Other' - people living in a distant land who don't look like us. It might have been exotic, but also a "Third-World" story.
Marjane Satrapi
#12. If you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you have also to believe that no one was ever improved by a book.
Irving Kristol
#13. Francine looked up and mouthed, "Thank you." "any titme," I lied.
Sloane Crosley
#14. We have found other terms far less vague than the old ones to designate the same complaints. It's a great advance linguistically.
Jean Anouilh
