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"We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom."
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"I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect."
"No one was born a reader we learn to build the habit of reading."
"It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence."
"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."
"He seemed to be in quest for mental food, not heart sustenance."
"Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice."
"Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions."
"Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s."
"Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now, where her mind has been called out at all, her intellect is as bright, as capacious, and as powerful as his."
"I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind."
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"I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity."
"I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity."
"I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context."
"An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused."
"My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible."
"It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it."
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