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Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.

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The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
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Man Place World Worth
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Big Books Enterprise
I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
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Myself Pieces Reading Woman
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
The world is always in movement.
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Change Movement One Liner World
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
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
In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.
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Beginning Lost Man Myself Side White Win
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
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Act Judgement Try Understand Wisdom
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don’t express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It’s a form of aggression.
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Country Culture Decision Essence Expression Law Live Yourself
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
The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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Death Kill Past See
A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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Civilization Conquer Death World
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Darkness Existence Kind World
Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.
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Fiction Growth Intuition
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Inheritance Ourselves Stranger Understand
Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can’t do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait.
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Hell Life Patience Prevent Trouble Wait Yourself
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust
I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel
I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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Myself Personality Soft Thinking Tough Writing

Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.

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