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Quote by Naguib Mahfouz
At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic. - Naguib Mahfouz

At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic. – Naguib Mahfouz

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I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while. – Naguib Mahfouz

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Poetry
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Naguib Mahfouz
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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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The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public. – Albert Ellis

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I must confess, I was born at a very early age. – Groucho Marx

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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do more, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down. – T.S. Eliot, quoted in Time, 23 October 1950

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Ive given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself. – Oscar Levant

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I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And its equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people. – Brad Thor

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There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange. – Elias Canetti

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A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both. – Benjamin Disraeli

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