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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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"No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction."

"To make dollars from cents you have to have sense."

"See money " currency - as the flow of energy and giving that cycles between you, others and me. Now let it flow kindly, fairly and mindfully."

"Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart into you? Invention, energy, wit, style, charm--they've all got to be paid for in hard cash."

"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."

"The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty."
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"It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat."

"The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level."

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

"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."

"It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts."

"We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems."

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