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"Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture."
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"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."
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"Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture."
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"A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand."
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"I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate."
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"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious."
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"When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture."
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"Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay."
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"Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second."
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"I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture."
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"If we reject science, we reject the common man."
Science
"I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday."
Reading
"I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised."
Thought
"The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art."
Art
"As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak."
Education
"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
"I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle."
Life
"In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works."
People
"We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems."
Time
"I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening."
Government
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