Prayer Mat Quotes by Naguib Mahfouz

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• Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.
• At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.
• Excessive concern with religion seems to me a last resort for people who have been exhausted by life.
• If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.
• An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
• Hosni Mubarak... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions now. The press is free.
• I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
• I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he…
• I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment-that is not the Islamic way.
• We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and…
• I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write…
• Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.

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