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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.

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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
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Act Judgement Try Understand Wisdom
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself
I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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Myself Personality Soft Thinking Tough Writing
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Big Books Enterprise
Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it’s complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he’s able to keep processing that as well.
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Childhood Deal Experience Himself Kind Life Writing
My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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Life Listening Myself
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 am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking Writing
The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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Death Kill Past See
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
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
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
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’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel

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