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After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.

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
Writing has to support itself.
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One Liner Support Writing
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
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
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
The world is always in movement.
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Change Movement One Liner World
Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
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Beginning Community Death End Life Myself Politics
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Darkness Existence Kind World
I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel
One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.
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Born Expectation Ideas People Work Yourself
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Big Books Enterprise
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Act Judgement Try Understand Wisdom
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
I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people’s lands.
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Born Hands Home Myself People Search
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 the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
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Detail Friendship Inspirational Life Mystery Writing

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