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An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.

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I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.

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If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.

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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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You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

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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.

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If we reject science, we reject the common man.

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Insults are the business of the court.

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

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Biography

Nationality: Egyptian

Type: Novelist

Born: December 11th, 1911

Died: August 30th, 2006

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