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" I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace. "

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" It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat. "

" We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were. "

" I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised. "

" Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred. "

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" I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees. "

" According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment. "

" Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story. "

" My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize. "

" One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages. "

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" I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment-that is not the Islamic way. "

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" The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition. "

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" I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning. "

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" History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself. "