Naguib Mahfouz Quotes
According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.
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Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
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Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
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What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.
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The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places?
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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I would spend hours absorbing every intonation, every inflection - how the singer would convey a sentiment and how it would sound coming out of their head. All of those things I very carefully watched and absorbed, and so I guess I was studying my whole life, although not in any sort of conventional way.
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There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!
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It's not like I ever sat in my room and said I was going to start a media company and become an editor in chief. It was never my dream. It was something that just happened.
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The key is allowing your partner to be who they are and not having expectations that really have nothing to do with the person you married.
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There are so many songs in me that haven't been born yet. So I can't call myself a genius, but I never turn away a compliment, and I feel like I'm on my way to that mountain.
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Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
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Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.
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I think that Sufism fits all over the world. The concept is not anything that fits standard Western ideas - it's always related to culture, to music, to religion. It is a dominant religion in Senegal.
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According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.
