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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
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.
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Enough History Ideas Man Need
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking 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
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Big Books Enterprise
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death 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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Fiction Growth Intuition
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
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
You can’t deny what you’ve learned; you can’t deny your travels; you can’t deny the nature of your life.
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Learning Life Nature Travel Yourself
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
Home is, I suppose just a child’s idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
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Children Feeling Home Ideas Night Place Safety
I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Books Myself

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