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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.
Naguib Mahfouz / Film Writer
Constitution
Democratic
Mubarak
Opinion
Voice
Opinions
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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.
Naguib Mahfouz / Film Writer
Bread
Concerned
Democracy
Educated
Egypt
People
Works
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Art is a criticism of society and life, and I believe that if life became perfect, art would be meaningless and cease to exist.
Naguib Mahfouz / Film Writer
Art
Believe
Perfect
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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.
Naguib Mahfouz / Film Writer
Language
Literature
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Prize
Arabic
Languages
Effect
Literary
Translated
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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.
Naguib Mahfouz / Film Writer
Class
Egypt
Pregnancy
Classes
Rebuild
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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.
Naguib Mahfouz / Film Writer
Society
Critical
Extraordinary
Eye
Hero
People
Stories
Look People Nothing
Society Look People
Heroes
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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.
Naguib Mahfouz / Film Writer
Burned
Ideas
Literature
People
Proclaiming
History Society Always
Defended
Stake
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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.
Naguib Mahfouz / Film Writer
Men
Fasting
Fellow Man
Prayer
Touching
Clearly
Fellow
Mat
Treat
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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.
Naguib Mahfouz / Film Writer
Heritage
Night
Style
Thousand
Western
Nights
Express
Themes
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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.
Naguib Mahfouz / Film Writer
Appreciated
Feelings
International
Levels
Literature
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Prize
Life Time Me
International Level
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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.
Naguib Mahfouz / Film Writer
Battle
Beautiful
Giving
Loving Life
Midst
Path
Reject
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I was afraid of marriage. I had the impression married life would take up all my time. I saw myself drowning in visits and parties. No freedom.
Naguib Mahfouz / Film Writer
Married
Party
Saws
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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.
Naguib Mahfouz / Film Writer
Expression
Freedom Of Expression
Literature
Natural
Pay
Pay The Price
Counter
Defend
Differing
Natural Way
Price
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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.
Naguib Mahfouz / Film Writer
Education
Agriculture
Democracy
Goal
Industry
Mubarak
Tension
Mr
Direction
Final
Toward
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A priest's life is spent between question and answer-- or between a question and the attempt to answer it. The question is the summary of the spiritual life.
Naguib Mahfouz / Film Writer
Life Is
Questions And Answers
Spiritual
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I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat.
Naguib Mahfouz / Film Writer
Morning
Afternoon
Up Early
Wake Up
Writing
Prefer
Hour
Midday
Wake
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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.
Naguib Mahfouz / Film Writer
Believe
Country
Integrity
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It's not surprising that truly humanitarian manifestos originate frequently in minority circles or with people whose consciences are troubled by the problems of minorities.
Naguib Mahfouz / Film Writer
Circles
Minorities
People
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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.
Naguib Mahfouz / Film Writer
Conviction
Order
Our Lives
Peculiar
Political
Pursued
Suffering
Meaning
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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.
Naguib Mahfouz / Film Writer
Beautiful
Desert
Enjoy
Love Yourself
Relax
Love Poetry Beautiful
Mirage
Says
Sit
While
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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.
Naguib Mahfouz / Film Writer
Book
Countrymen
Hands
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Prize
Reading
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Literature should be more revolutionary than revolutions themselves; writers must find the means to continue to be critical of the negative elements in the sociopolitical reality.
Naguib Mahfouz / Film Writer
Mean
Negative
Reality
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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.
Naguib Mahfouz / Film Writer
Arab World
Believe
Deserve
Doors
International
Nobel
People
Recognition
Believe World Me
Arab
Believe I Believe World
Consider
World Believe Me
Literate
Opened
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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.
Naguib Mahfouz / Film Writer
Love Is
Lying
Mind
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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.
Naguib Mahfouz / Film Writer
Book
Good Writing
Reading
Someday
Writing
Love Good Me
Admired
Boy
Books
Maybe
Pushed
While
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For the first time in my life, I felt that a wave, a justice was sweeping away a deep-seated decay without any indulgence. I dearly wished that it would keep going without hesitation or deviation, in a spirit of purity forever.
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Decay
Forever
Justice
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I am the son of two civilizations that at a certain age in history have formed a happy marriage. The first of these, seven thousand years old, is the Pharaonic civilization; the second, one thousand four hundred years old, is the Islamic civilization.
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Islamic
Son
Years
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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
Naguib Mahfouz / Film Writer
Believe
Long
People
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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.
Naguib Mahfouz / Film Writer
Men
Thinking
Writing
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When you spend time with your friends, what do you talk about? Those things which made an impression on you that day, that week ... I write stories the same way. Events at home, in school, at work, in the street, these are the bases for a story. Some experiences leave such a deep impression that instead of talking about them at the club I work them into a novel.
Naguib Mahfouz / Film Writer
Home
School
Writing
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