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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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I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Material Myself Separate Writing
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
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
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
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
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
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
If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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Oppression Sit Talk Writing
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
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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Fake Intellectual Mistake Quantity Travel Yourself
As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother’s house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
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Beyond Children Home Myself World
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
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live Writing
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True

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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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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