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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.

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
I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
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Myself Pieces Reading Woman
Writing has to support itself.
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One Liner Support Writing
The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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Death Kill Past See
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
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
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
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
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
An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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Fact Fiction Lying Writing
Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
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Freedom Limitation People Possible Vision World
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Comedy Deep Moments Writing
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking Writing
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
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself
In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.
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Beginning Lost Man Myself Side White Win

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