Egypt Quotes

Insults are the business of the court.
It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.
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.
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.
My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.
One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.
Sadat made us feel more secure.
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.
The criminal is trying to solve his immediate problems.
The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.
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.
The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.
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.
Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.
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.
We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.
We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights.
Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.
Without literature my life would be miserable.
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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Abraham Joshua Heschel
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BirthDate
11 January, 1907
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23 December, 1972
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Poland
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