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You can’t deny what you’ve learned; you can’t deny your travels; you can’t deny the nature of your life.

V.S. Naipaul

I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.
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Discover Interest Question Religion Simplicity Thinking
I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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Ancestor Family Father Mom Myself
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death Writing
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Darkness Existence Kind World
The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had done good things for the slaves.
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Gold Goodness Help Slave Time
When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
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Learning Myself Strength Strong Writing
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live Writing
Writing has to support itself.
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One Liner Support Writing
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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Civilization Conquer Death World
It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say ‘my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn’t matter’.
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Affect Calm Destroy Existence History Myself Past People
The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.
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Beginning Business Intuition Myself Reason
And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over.
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Death Man Moments Myself Sadness Sorrow Strange Victory
In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Myself Reputation Way
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.
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Easy Light Myself Name Talk Way

You can’t deny what you’ve learned; you can’t deny your travels; you can’t deny the nature of your life.

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