Naguib Mahfouz

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. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#clearly #fasting #fellow #fellow man #head

My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#countrymen #forget #hand #me #nobel

My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#deserved #i #i always #nobel #prize

One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#been #effect #had #into #languages

Sadat made us feel more secure. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#made #more #secure #us

The criminal is trying to solve his immediate problems. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#his #immediate #problems #solve #trying

The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#civilized #civilized nations #koran #laws #legislate

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. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#could #feeling #first #first time #given

The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#doubts #his #own #questions #story

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

#extraordinary #eye #find #heroes #i