Marjane Satrapi: Likeness

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“In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves!”

Marjane Satrapi

Source: Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

People , Chance

“Nothing's worse than saying goodbye. It's a little like dying.”

Marjane Satrapi

Variant: Saying goodbye is a little like dying.
Source: Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

“The words are not the same and the feeling is not the same. You know, they say in France that translation is like a woman. She is either beautiful or faithful. So it’s better when she’s beautiful because when she’s too faithful it might be very ugly. This is French people. This translation, though, is very well made. This is my American editor, who knows me very well who has made the translation. But in any translation you lose a little bit.”

Marjane Satrapi

On her views regarding the translation of works in “AN INTERVIEW WITH MARJANE SATRAPI” http://www.bookslut.com/features/2004_10_003261.php in Book Slut (October 2004)

Feeling , Beauty , Faith , People