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  • The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.
    - Naguib Mahfouz
  • 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.
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  • If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.
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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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  • 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
  • Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.
    - Naguib Mahfouz