Naguib Mahfouz Quotes
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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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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I'm a night owl for sure. I was born at 1 A.M., and that's the excuse I use.
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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
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No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
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My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.
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The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.
Garry Kasparov -
I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.
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I've been a victim in every film I have done so far. It would be nice to play someone who doesn't get killed for once. Then again, I am getting really good at screaming and fake tears.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
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I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.
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Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.
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The tax money belongs to the taxpayers. It doesn't belong to the bureaucracy. And government is not a welfare system.
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But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
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Other people get into occupations by accident or design; but writers are born. I could work at selling motels, or slopping hogs, for fifty years, but if someone asked my occupation, I'd say writer, even if I'd never sold a word. Writers write. Other people talk.
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Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe.
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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.
