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Naguib Mahfouz Inspirational Quotes (43)

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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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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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For the first time in my life, I felt that a wave, a justice was sweeping away a deep-seated decay without any indulgence. I dearly wished that it would keep going without hesitation or deviation, in a spirit of purity forever.
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I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
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You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.
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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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Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.
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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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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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Insults are the business of the court.
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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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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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It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.
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Home is not where you were born home is where all your attempts to escape cease.
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The criminal is trying to solve his immediate problems.
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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 believe in life and in people. I feel obliged to advocate their highest ideals as long as I believe them to be true. I also see myself compelled to revolt against ideals I believe to be false, since recoiling from rebellion would be a form of treason
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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 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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