All Naguib Mahfouz Quotes
God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.
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The criminal is trying to solve his immediate problems.
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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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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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We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights.
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Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.
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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 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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I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.
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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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