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.
Naguib Mahfouz
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- At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.
- 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.
- As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak.
- I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.
- God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.