Alaa Al Aswany quotes
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“A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction.”
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“If you can't find good in your own country, you won't find it anywhere else.”
-- Alaa Al AswanySource : Alaa Al Aswany (2004). “The Yacoubian Building”, p.135, I.B.Tauris
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“Illiteracy does not impede the practice of democracy, as witnessed by the success of democracy in India despite the high illiteracy rate. One doesn't need a university diploma to realize that the ruler is oppressive and corrupt. On the other hand, to eradicate illiteracy requires that we elect a fair and efficient political regime.”
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“Egyptians are like camels: they can put up with beatings, humiliation and starvation for a long time but when they rebel they do so suddenly and with a force that is impossible to control.”
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“Everything that happened to you is a page that's been turned and is done with.”
-- Alaa Al AswanySource : Alaa Al Aswany (2004). “The Yacoubian Building”, p.192, I.B.Tauris
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“I am according to my slave's expectations of me: if good, then good, and if bad, then bad.”
-- Alaa Al AswanySource : Alaa Al Aswany (2009). “The Yacoubian Building: A Novel”, p.20, Harper Collins
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“Revolution is like a love story. When you are in love, you become a much better person. And when you are in revolution, you become a much better person.”
-- Alaa Al Aswany
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2011). “A.J. Jacobs Omnibus: The Know-It-All, The Year of Living Biblically, My Life as an Experiment”, p.707, Simon and Schuster
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“fiction is founded on truth....unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them.”
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“I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.”
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