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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.
Naguib Mahfouz
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Naguib Mahfouz
Age: 94 †
Born: 1911
Born: December 11
Died: 2006
Died: August 30
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Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha
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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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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 calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.
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I am the son of two civilizations that at a certain age in history have formed a happy marriage. The first of these, seven thousand years old, is the Pharaonic civilization the second, one thousand four hundred years old, is the Islamic civilization.
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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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Madness is the acme of intelligence.
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The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
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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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If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.
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I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle.
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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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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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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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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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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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As for life's tragedies, our love will defeat them. Love is the most effective cure. In the crevices of disasters, happiness lies like a diamond in a mind, so let us instill in ourselves the wisdom of love.
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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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Insults are the business of the court.
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