I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.
Naguib MahfouzAbout author
- Author's profession: Novelist
- Nationality: egyptian
- Born: December 11, 1911
- Died: August 30, 2006
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So -- I confess I have been a rake at reading. I have read those things which I ought not to have read, and I have not read those things which I ought to have read, and there is no health in me -- if by health you mean an inclusive and coherent knowledge of any body of great literature. I can only protest, like all rakes in their shameful senescence, that I have had a good time.
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