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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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"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."

"Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!"

"One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys."

"Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated."

"The Bible does not say money is the root of all evil; it says the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. A poor man who, in his heart, worships the idea of being rich is more vulnerable to its evils than a rich man who has a heart to use it all for the Lord."

"Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have."

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"Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood?"
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"It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"Hosni Mubarak... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions now. The press is free."

"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."

"Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization."
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