“It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.”

—Naguib Mahfouz, Sugar Street

“It’s a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.”

—Naguib Mahfouz

“Ž"It’s a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.”

—Naguib Mahfouz

“It’s a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.”

—Naguib Mahfouz

“It’s a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.”

—Sugar Street (Naguib Mahfouz)

“If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.”

—

Naguib Mahfouz, who would have turned 100 today

“It’s a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.” 

—Naguib Mahfouz, from Sugar Street: The Cairo Trilogy, Volume 3 (Anchor, 2011)


“When you spend time with your friends, what do you talk about? Those things which made an impression on you that day, that week . . . I write stories the same way. Events at home, in school, at work, in the street, these are the bases for a story. Some experiences leave such a deep impression that instead of talking about them at the club I work them into a novel.” ”

—Naguib Mahfouz

“It’s a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind. ”

—Naguib Mahfouz, Sugar Street

“I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other ”

—Naguib Mahfouz

“لا تغالي في المثاليه و إلا مت تقززاً Don't exaggerate in your idealism, or else you'll die of disgust!”

—Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006) -  Egyptian writer & novelist; won the Nopel Prize for Literature in 1988 

“If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.”

—Naguib Mahfouz
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