Egyptian - Novelist | December 11, 1911 - August 30, 2006
If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.
Naguib Mahfouz
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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.
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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.
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If we reject science, we reject the common man.
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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 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.
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Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.
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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 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.
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According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.
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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.
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At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.
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