"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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"I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.“
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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."
-Naguib Mahfouz
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"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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"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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"If we reject science, we reject the common man."
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"Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization."
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