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Life doesn’t have a neat beginning and a tidy end; life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.

V.S. Naipaul

I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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Ideas Intuition Myself Start Trust Understand Writing
In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Myself Reputation Way
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Comedy Deep Moments Writing
Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn’t fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will – with luck – come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise
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Books Luck Moments Myself Wait Writing
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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Learning Life Nature Travel Yourself
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Material Myself Separate Writing
But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Books Myself Value
I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel
Life doesn’t have a neat beginning and a tidy end; life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.
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Beginning End Life Yourself
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 will say I am the sum of my books.
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Books Myself
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Inheritance Ourselves Stranger Understand
It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.
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City Goodness Heart Lost Path Place Separate Unknown
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
Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.
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Enough History Ideas Man Need

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