...oh that short hair, a la garcon that evokes unfamiliar, boyish kinds of sex.

Alaa Al Aswany


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She represents the beauty of the common people in all its vulgarity and provocativeness.

Alaa Al Aswany


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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 Aswany


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...and that spark will flash in her eyes confirming that her mind never stops working, even in the heat of passion.

Alaa Al Aswany


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If you can't find good in your own country, you won't find it anywhere else.

Alaa Al Aswany


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Everything that happened to you is a page that's been turned and is done with.

Alaa Al Aswany


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Later he would ponder the relation between our extreme desire for something and our ability to realize it- was what we wanted inevitably brought about if we wanted it enough?

Alaa Al Aswany


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The writer of fiction is not a scholar but an artist impacted emotionally by characters from life, who then strives to present these in his works. These characters present us with human truth but do not necessarily represent social truth.

Alaa Al Aswany

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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.

Alaa Al Aswany

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The concept of the benevolent dictator, just like the concepts of the noble thief or the honest whore, is no more than a meaningless fantasy.

Alaa Al Aswany

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