Best quotes by Marjane Satrapi on Life

Checkout quotes by Marjane Satrapi on Life

• ‟ Smoking kills you, but life kills you, and if you don't want to die, go into a freezer when you are born and nothing will happen to you.

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• ‟ The best thing I ever did in my life was to ask, 'Do I like everybody?' And the answer was, 'No.' So why should everybody like me? If people are against me, so what? I'm against them too.

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• ‟ It is dangerous when you start calling people from one part of the world terrorists or fanatic, and you reduce them to some abstract notion. If evil has a geographical place, and if the evil has a name, that is the beginning of fascism. Real life is not this way. You have fanatics and narrow-minded people everywhere.

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• ‟ If people are given the chance to experience life in more than one country, they will hate a little less. It's not a miracle potion, but little by little you can solve problems in the basement of a country, not on the surface.

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• ‟ You know, I'm a really individualistic person. I'm extremely narcissistic and egocentric, too. So I have one life, and I have to live it the way I want.

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• ‟ For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.

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• ‟ It's always extremely interesting to speak at colleges. My books are taught in many colleges in America and are part of the educational system, so it's really important to me. I don't believe in so many things in life, but something I believe in is education.

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• ‟ That's the story of life - when you start enjoying people, it's always too late.

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• ‟ I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your life, it becomes fictional. Of course, the truth is never far. But the story is created out of it.

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• ‟ My point of view when I make a book or I make a movie is to see the humanistic point of view. The point of view of the daily life of normal people.

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