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All you who sleep tonight Far from the ones you love, No hand to left or right, An emptiness above– Know that you aren’t alone. The whole world shares your tears, Some for two nights or one, And some for all your years.

Vikram Seth

Of course, the greater one’s need, the greater one’s propensity to be mesmerized.
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Greatness Mesmerize Need
You get your inspiration – suggestions – wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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Inspirational Mom Yourself
Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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Dreams Inspirational Success Yourself
I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
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Book Feeling Media Myself News People Space Writing
The past is the past, and he can’t make amends, only hope that the gain will outlast the damage.
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Change Damage Hope Past
I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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Goodness Myself Nature Person Thinking World
I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I’m not. I’m just obsessed with my work.
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Myself Obesession Reputation Work
Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don’t have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.
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Character Establishment Existence Happiness Revision Yourself
Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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Boredom Strong Writing
To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
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Hard Time Heart Broken Life Love Yourself
I don’t think anyone should be banned. If you don’t like a book, set it aside.
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Book Myself Thinking
In a painting, you can’t make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist’s stroke.
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Artist Paint Progress See Yourself
Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.
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Happiness Person Place Power Thinking Yourself
I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens – not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens – should talk about things that matter to them.
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Citizenship Important Myself Talk Thinking Writing
You will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.
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Inspirational Motivational Yourself
I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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Lazy Myself Natural Need Obsession Order

All you who sleep tonight Far from the ones you love, No hand to left or right, An emptiness above– Know that you aren’t alone. The whole world shares your tears, Some for two nights or one, And some for all your years.

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All you who sleep tonight Far from the ones you love, No hand to left or right, An emptiness above– Know that you aren’t alone. The whole world shares your tears, Some for two nights or one, And some for all your years.

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