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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
brainwane@social.coop ("Sumana Harihareswara") wrote:

https://www.france24.com/en/culture/20260604-french-iranian-author-marjane-satrapi-author-of-persepolis-dies-at-56 I'm sad that Marjane Satrapi has died.

I have often come across the quote below. Before reposting it, I wanted to verify it. And I found out it's from a 2005 Salon interview https://www.salon.com/2005/04/24/satrapi%5F2/ -- during the time I worked at Salon! A neat coincidence for me.

Quote from graphic novelist Marjane Satrapi: “The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don’t know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same.” Photo of a woman looking directly at camera with a very slight smile and holding a lit cigarette