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" I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way. "
Naguib Mahfouz
He
Everyone
Am
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" I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening. "
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" I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised. "
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" You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. "
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" The criminal is trying to solve his immediate problems. "
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" Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred. "
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" The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions. "
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" If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion. "
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" Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story. "
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" Hosni Mubarak... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions now. The press is free. "
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" 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. "
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" There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see. "
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" I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature. "
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" Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization. "
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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. "
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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. "
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" At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic. "
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" I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. "
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" The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art. "
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" My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize. "
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" I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat. "
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" In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works. "
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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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" 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 started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me. "
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