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- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Pessimistic
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- Nov 07, 2020
At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hosni Mubarak... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions now. The press is free.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment-that is not the Islamic way.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.
- Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.
- Common Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we reject science, we reject the common man.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
- Court
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- Nov 07, 2020
Insults are the business of the court.
- Early
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sadat made us feel more secure.
- His
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- Nov 07, 2020
The criminal is trying to solve his immediate problems.
- Civilized Nations
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
- Needs
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.
- Heritage
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Lifestyle
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- Nov 07, 2020
Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020