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Naguib Mahfouz

"If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last."

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Donna Grant

"Imagine a factory staffed by Alphas-that is to say by separate and unrelated individuals of good heredity and conditioned so as to be capable (within limits) of making a free choice and assuming responsibilities. Imagine it!"

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Donna Grant

"I definitely do things on my terms, it may not seem that way but I actually do."

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Donna Grant

"Nobody will live your life for you."

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Donna Grant

"We are always - always- in choice."

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Donna Grant

"In that instance, my body had decided that this baby was not to be and had ended it. This time, it is my mind that has decided that this baby was not to be. I don't believe one's decision is more valid than the other. They both know me. They are both equally capable of deciding what is right."

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Donna Grant

"But I am, personally, not a gambler. I wouldn't spend £1 on the lottery, let alone take a punt on a pregnancy. The stakes are far, far too high. I can't agree with a society that would force me to bet on how much I could love under duress."

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Donna Grant

"It must be freely admitted that there is a sort of circle here from which it seems impossible to escape. In the order of efficient causes we assume ourselves free, in order that in the order of ends we may conceive ourselves as subject to these laws because we have attributed to ourselves freedom of will; for freedom and self-legislation of will are both autonomy..."

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Donna Grant

"As a Christian and a feminist, the most important message I can carry and fight for is the sacredness of each human life, and reproductive rights for all women are a crucial part of that. It is a moral necessity that we not be forced to bring children into the world for whom we cannot be responsible and adoring and present. We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society."

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Donna Grant

"You had to live in your own bubble. You couldn't force your way into someone else's, because then it wouldn't be a bubble any more."

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Donna Grant

"Once you've chosen a man, don't try to change him, I wrote, with more confidence. It can't be done. More important -- don't let him try to change you. He can't do it either, but men always try."

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Naguib Mahfouz
"I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees."

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Naguib Mahfouz
"Insults are the business of the court."

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

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Naguib Mahfouz
"I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening."

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Naguib Mahfouz
"I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday."

Reading

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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."

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Naguib Mahfouz
"I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace."

Peace

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Naguib Mahfouz
"An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers."

Reading

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Naguib Mahfouz
"I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while."

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Naguib Mahfouz
"The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art."

Art

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