"I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat."
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"The criminal is trying to solve his immediate problems."
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"I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment-that is not the Islamic way."
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"Hosni Mubarak... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions now. The press is free."
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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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"I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised."
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"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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"I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party."
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"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."
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"My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize."
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"I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way."
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"Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred."
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"Without literature my life would be miserable."
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"A priest's life is spent between question and answer-- or between a question and the attempt to answer it. The question is the summary of the spiritual life."
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"If we reject science, we reject the common man."
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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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"We wont develop until we accept that reading is a vital necessity."
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"It's not surprising that truly humanitarian manifestos originate frequently in minority circles or with people whose consciences are troubled by the problems of minorities."
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