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I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.

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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
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
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death Writing
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself
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
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
I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel
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
The writer is all alone.
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Alone One Liner Writing
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
Writing has to support itself.
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One Liner Support Writing
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
One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Oneself Situation Truth Universe
I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Material Myself Separate Writing

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