Mahfouz. Tens of thousands of Taiwanese protesters rallied day and night outside parliament, as lawmakers inside traded insults, blows and theatrics over a series of bills to expand the legislature's power.

 

Tens of thousands of Taiwanese protesters rallied day and night outside parliament, as lawmakers inside traded insults, blows and theatrics over a series of bills to expand the legislature's power.

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

- Nobel Prize laureate Naguib Mahfouz.

Mahfouz began writing when he was seventeen and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature when he was 76. For much of his life he worked as a civil servant, and wrote when he returned home from work in the evenings.

Mahfouz often used his hometown of Cairo as the backdrop for his stories. His prize motivation stated that he "through works rich in nuance - now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous - has formed an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind."

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讀到錢鍾書一句話: 「廉恥並不廉，許多人維持它不起。」（《圍城》頁 330） 

發現可能仿自英文Freedom is not free.