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Naguib Mahfouz

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

Culture , Writer

related quotes

" 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. "

Forget , Style

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

Winning

" Without literature my life would be miserable. "

Literature , Life

" You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. "

Man , Answers

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

Thought , Wife

" 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. "

Prayer , Man

" Insults are the business of the court. "

Business , Court

" In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works. "

People , Democracy , Today

" If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion. "

People , Religion , Want , Nothing , Sensitivity

" If we reject science, we reject the common man. "

Man , Science

" One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages. "

Literary

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

Politics , Party , Committee

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