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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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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
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
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law.
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Confidence Family Fight Ideas Important Law Respect Society
I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people’s lands.
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Born Hands Home Myself People Search
I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Material Myself Separate Writing
Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
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Freedom Limitation People Possible Vision World
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
Writing has to support itself.
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One Liner Support Writing
In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Myself Reputation Way
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
It’s very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing. If you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you’ve got it half-made. I mean intellectually.
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Attraction Beginning Group History Intellectual Myself People Victim
I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Books Myself
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Big Books Enterprise
The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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Death Kill Past See

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