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Naguib Mahfouz Quotes

Without literature my life would be miserable.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Life My Life Literature Miserable

When I got married and when my sister got married, my mom made us both individual cooking books with all of our family recipes and pictures and kind of the history with our Sicilian family, so that was really special.

Jessie James Decker

Family History Cooking Mom Sister

The only way to go on holiday is with your expectations at ground level. Convince yourself before you go that the weather's going to be dreadful and there will be nylon sheets. You'll then be pleasantly surprised.

Yourself Weather Expectations You Go

Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Beginning People Tell Century Wanted

Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication.

Communication Time Ten Years Know

Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment.

Moment Political Judge Nobody Wants

It's difficult to just let go of a character. Especially after you've been preparing and researching for weeks.

Character You Go Difficult Let Go

And Big Night, I think by the end the brothers find that balance, when they touch each other on the shoulder over breakfast and it's understood that what should never have driven them apart almost drove them apart. I think that's a true moment.

Moment Balance Breakfast Night Think

Sometimes you have to push the envelope in pursuit of the right thing.

Push You Sometimes Right Pursuit

The Republicans ought to be nowhere near trying to help Obama save his bacon. But they don't think that's what they're doing, I'm convinced. You talk about trauma and the need for therapy, I really think that the Republicans have been genuinely psychologically traumatized by decades of media criticism.

Think Criticism Doing Media Help

I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think of myself as a poet; I just get up and write.

Music Myself Words Think Kind Never

My public persona is badly warped and bears little resemblance to the person those closest to me know.

Me Person Know Little Persona Bears

I went to the store and bought lady fingers, when I got home I noticed one of the fingers was missing so I went back to the store and the manager was nice enough to give me the finger.

Home Me Enough Lady Back Nice

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