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" Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization. "
Naguib Mahfouz
Civilization
Today
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" If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last. "
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" We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems. "
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" I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things. "
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" The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art. "
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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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" The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions. "
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" At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic. "
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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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" 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 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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" 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. "
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" We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights. "
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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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" Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story. "
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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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" I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party. "
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" My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize. "
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" I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening. "
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Government
" According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment. "
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" I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised. "
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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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" 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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