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But everything of value about me is in my books.

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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
It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That’s where the mischief starts. That’s where everything starts unravelling.
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Ideal Reveal Start View World Wrong
The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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Establishment Greatness Imitation Man Mindset Movie Original Story Time
I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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End Eyes Need People See World
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Inheritance Ourselves Stranger Understand
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
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
I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
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Books Career Feeling Myself
When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
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Learning Myself Strength Strong Writing
Writing has to support itself.
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One Liner Support 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
One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Oneself Situation Truth Universe
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
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust
The world is always in movement.
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Change Movement One Liner World

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