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"It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed "Wisdom." And then I know exactly what is going to follow: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.""
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"I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate."
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"Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture."
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"Nevada has a world-class economy. It will only build a world-class culture with world-class research universities coupled with the Desert Research Institute."
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"If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe."
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"In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture."
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"The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them."
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"Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up."
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"Country music is the poetry of the American spirit."
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"Beer is the Danish national drink, and the Danish national weakness is another beer."
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"If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last."
Autonomy
"One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages."
Diversity
"It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts."
Cultural
"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."
Love
"In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works."
People
"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."
Love
"I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday."
Reading
"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."
People
"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."
Being
"Hosni Mubarak... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions now. The press is free."
Constitution
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