Naguib Mahfouz Quotes

Egyptian - Novelist | December 11, 1911 - August 30, 2006

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

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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.

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

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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.

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Sadat made us feel more secure.

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The criminal is trying to solve his immediate problems.

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The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.

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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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We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.

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Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.

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Without literature my life would be miserable.

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