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I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.

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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Darkness Existence Kind World
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
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
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Inheritance Ourselves Stranger Understand
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
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
The world is always in movement.
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Change Movement One Liner World
That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing – which is never an easy thing to do.
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Easy Element Myself Surprise Writing
I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
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Books Career Feeling Myself
I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
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
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
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Act Judgement Try Understand Wisdom
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
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

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