I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.
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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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One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.
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We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.
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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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It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.
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History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
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We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights.
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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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I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle.
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