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My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.

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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
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live Writing
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
All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
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Detail Friendship Inspirational Life Mystery Writing
You need someone to see what you’ve done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what’s gone into it.
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Need Reading See Understand Yourself
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
Home is, I suppose just a child’s idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
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Children Feeling Home Ideas Night Place Safety
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking Writing
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother’s house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
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Beyond Children Home Myself World
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
I still think it’s really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
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Myself Quality Quite Reading Thinking Wonderful
All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
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Father Reading Right Story
To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn’t know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up.
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Book Day Myself Past Writing

My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.

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