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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.

V.S. Naipaul

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 writer is all alone.
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Alone One Liner Writing
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
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
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself
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
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Inheritance Ourselves Stranger Understand
Writing has to support itself.
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One Liner Support Writing
I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Material Myself Separate Writing
The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.
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People Sadness Stupidity World
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Act Judgement Try Understand Wisdom
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
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
If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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Oppression Sit Talk Writing

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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