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Only the poor are handicapped by honor.
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
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Cairo
Egypt
Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha
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Poor
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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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If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.
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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 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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Home is not where you were born home is where all your attempts to escape cease.
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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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