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Naguib Mahfouz

"There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see."

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"There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see."

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"In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man's dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass."

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"People on corporate conveyor belts, like animals in slaughter-chutes are all part of the same big massacre of joy."

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"Poverty is like a crumb that sits at a table, and starves itself to death."

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"Without literature my life would be miserable."

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

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"God did not intend religion to be an exercise club."

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

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"If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last."

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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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"The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art."

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"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."

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"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."

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