Quotes by Naguib Mahfouz

One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary...

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My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.

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My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they...

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It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying...

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It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard...

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Insults are the business of the court.

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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of...

#Naguib Mahfouz

If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in...

#Naguib Mahfouz

If we reject science, we reject the common man.

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If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be...

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I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a...

#Naguib Mahfouz

I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and...

#Naguib Mahfouz