352 Quotes by Marjane Satrapi

Hunger eats civilization. The West is not hungry; that’s why they can say they’re so civilized. Civilization is the biggest bluff!

One isn’t born courageous, one becomes it.

The harder I tried to assimilate, the more I had the feeling that I was distancing myself from my culture, betraying my parents and my origins, that I was playing a game by somebody else’s rules.

A Muslim fanatic and a Christian fanatic, a Jewish fanatic, a secular fanatic, an atheist fanatic, a communist fanatic – all of them are the same. The thinking that, ‘If you don’t think like me, that if you are not with me, then you are against me;’ this is something to condemn.

If today I have to make a political statement, it is, ‘I love beauty.’ I think beauty makes people better.

Adaptation of books is never a success. When the author wants to make it, it’s even worse.

I’m not somebody that keeps the thing in her heart. I can get very angry for five minutes, but then it’s finished. Once I’ve yelled, it’s over.

Third: live together as long as you feel truly happy. Life is too short to be lived badly.

I’m not a very good financing person. I don’t even know how much money I have in my bank account. I never have opened one single envelope from the bank – they freak me out.