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"I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature."
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"To make dollars from cents you have to have sense."
"Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth."
"Egoism and Money [Goddess of wealth; Lakshmi] are very much at odds [have great enmity]. There should be just enough egoism to accomplish one's work. Beyond that, any expanded egoism and money have great enmity. Money (Lakshmi) stays away from it."
"Money cannot buy you love. But it sure can buy you things that some people will love you for having."
"When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money."
"If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them."
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"I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees."
"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."
"I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace."
"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."
"The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions."
"I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things."
"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."
"One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages."
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