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The criminal is trying to solve his immediate problems.

Naguib Mahfouz

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Naguib Mahfouz
Age: 94 †
Born: 1911
Born: December 11
Died: 2006
Died: August 30
Artist
Autobiographer
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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Criminals
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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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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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Insults are the business of the court.
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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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If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.
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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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Madness is the acme of intelligence.
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Home is not where you were born home is where all your attempts to escape cease.
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Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.
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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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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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The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.
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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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Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We are condemned to work with upstarts, clowns who no doubt got their training in a circus and then turned to journalism as the appropriate place to display their tricks.
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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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It's not surprising that truly humanitarian manifestos originate frequently in minority circles or with people whose consciences are troubled by the problems of minorities.
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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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I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.
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