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It’s not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.

Vikram Seth

I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don’t like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can’t write.
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Listening Music Myself Poet Writing
The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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Inspirational Mindset Yourself
And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
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Equation Ink Writing
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 spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I’m enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.
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Distract Economics Feeling Happiness Life Myself Novel Writing
Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored.
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Book Goodness Ignorance Praise
There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.
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Carry Feeling Goodness Man Writing
I am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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Myself Reason Religious Subject Tolerance
I want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.
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Book Interest Myself Reading
Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people’s lives, the lives of people you don’t know, and you want to know what’s going to happen to them.
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Fiction Gossip Live People Yourself
Of course, the greater one’s need, the greater one’s propensity to be mesmerized.
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Greatness Mesmerize Need
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 don’t think people give Indian society enough credit. We may not like to talk much about things but we do, basically, want to live and let live.
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Enough Live Myself People Talk Thinking
Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him.
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Book Help Himself Object Place Proper Seek True
In life’s brief game to be a winner A man must have; oh yes, above All else, of course, someone to love.
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Game Life Love Man Winner
My eyes close. I am here and not here. A waking nap? A flight to the end of the galaxy and perhaps a couple of billion light-years beyond?
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Beyond Couple End Eyes Light Wake Up

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