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Quote by Naguib Mahfouz
There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society w

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 defend both the freedom of expression and societys right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things. – Naguib Mahfouz

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Freedom
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Events at home, at work, in the street – these are the bases for a story. – Naguib Mahfouz

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Home
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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. – Naguib Mahfouz

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Change
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I know what it feels like to carry a lot of weight in a society thats very image-conscious. Its a thin persons world, and we try to navigate within it without being made fun of. – Kevin Smith

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Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander. – Victor Hugo

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Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society. – Jean Baudrillard

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Solitude is better than the society of evil persons. – Abu Bakr

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The bashful are always aggressive at heart. – Charles Horton Cooley

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I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush. – Werner Herzog

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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves. – Mahatma Gandhi

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