Naguib Mahfouz Quotes

It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.

Naguib Mahfouz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: egyptian
  • Birth: December 11, 1911 - August 30, 2006

Topics

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I just like surprising people. I never want to get to a place where people see that I am in a movie and they go see the movie and they expect a certain performance one way or the other. That is just inherently boring to me.

John C. Reilly

I AmPeopleMePerformancePlaceGo

Since 1850, burning of fossil fuels, coal, oil and natural gas has increased 100 times to produce energy as the world has industrialized to serve the world's more than 6 billion and growing population.

John Olver

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In Georgia, apparently, men are men and women are women - at least in their folk dance.

Robert Gottlieb

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The only way to kill militancy, to reduce it, is to provide opportunities to people who have no opportunities. I've always told my American friends that.

Mian Muhammad Mansha

PeopleOpportunitiesAmericanFriends

Violent statements and threats cannot provide a solution to the problem. They can only exacerbate feeling and make a clash of forces inevitable.

Stafford Cripps

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It's very easy to make insects move. Because they do move mechanically without the rippling of flesh as you mentioned. They move more like real tinker toys and you can make models of them quite easily.

Michael O'Donoghue

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I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was 33; the work I had done when I was 21.

Joshua Lederberg

WorkDecisionsDoneYoungPersonal

To me, a wise and humane policy is occasionally to let inflation rise even when inflation is running above target.

Janet Yellen

WiseMeRiseTargetPolicyAbove

Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off.

Dick Wolf

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It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.

Clive Bell

GreatArtMarkUniversalGreat Art

I am as far from a hypochondriac as you could ever be.

Britt Ekland

I AmYouFarEverHypochondriacAm

I have everything in my house organized to an unnecessary T, and I love it! The only downside: I have no excuses for losing my to-do lists.

Ashley Rickards

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