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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."
"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."
"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."
"People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not."
"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"
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"I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday."
"Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization."
"We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems."
"I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees."
"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."
"One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages."
"I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace."
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