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I don't want to quit smoking. I am convinced that if I quit smoking, the world would go to hell.

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The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing.

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Anything that has a relationship with pleasure, we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol; making love, they talk about AIDS; you talk about smoking, they talk about cancer. It's a very sick society that rejects pleasure.

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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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Human beings have a lot of problems identifying themselves with other human beings who don't resemble them exactly. But there's something about drawing that means that anyone can identify to a drawing. I mean, people can identify themselves with Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse.

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The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.

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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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It's cinematographic to smoke. Imagine Lauren Bacall without a cigarette.

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Cinema is a world of imagination.

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Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you have the talent to be able to write and to draw, it seems a shame to choose one. I think it's better to do both.

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Biography

Nationality: Iranian

Type: Artist

Born: November 22nd, 1969

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