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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.

Naguib Mahfouz

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Naguib Mahfouz
Age: 94 †
Born: 1911
Born: December 11
Died: 2006
Died: August 30
Artist
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Film Writer
Intellectual
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
Translator
Writer
Cairo
Egypt
Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha
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Mubarak

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Insults are the business of the court.
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If life has no meaning, why don't we create a meaning for it?
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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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Only the poor are handicapped by honor.
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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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When will the state of the country be sound?... When its people believe that the end result of cowardice is more disastrous than that of behaving with integrity.
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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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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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As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak.
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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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Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.
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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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Home is not where you were born home is where all your attempts to escape cease.
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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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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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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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