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"The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose."

"Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are."

"It is the answers, not the questions, that are embarrassing."

"The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries."

"If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience."

"We'd like to have immediate answers to all of our questions. I think medicine in particular. I found it frustrating as a physician sometimes to not be able to tell someone exactly why something was happening to them. There are still so many mysteries in medicine."
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"I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning."

"The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition."

"I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me."

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

"History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself."

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

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