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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
And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over.
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Death Man Moments Myself Sadness Sorrow Strange Victory
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 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
I still think it’s really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
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Myself Quality Quite Reading Thinking Wonderful
It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say ‘my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn’t matter’.
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Affect Calm Destroy Existence History Myself Past People
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Big Books Enterprise
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live Writing
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
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
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 will say I am the sum of my books.
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Books Myself
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
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking Writing
A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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Civilization Conquer Death World

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