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The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.
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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Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.
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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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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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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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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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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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Home is not where you were born home is where all your attempts to escape cease.
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You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.
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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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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 believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.
Naguib Mahfouz
Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.
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The real malady is fear of life, not of death
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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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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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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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I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.
Naguib Mahfouz
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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Madness is the acme of intelligence.
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