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And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.

Vikram Seth

In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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Myself Nation Temptation
I think it’s possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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Business Inspirational Myself Possible Talent Thinking Tree
The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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Inspirational Mindset Yourself
I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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Life Myself Understand
Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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God Life Man Partner
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 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
Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out.
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Burn Calm Earth Flow Hate Human Knowledge Quiet Race River
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
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
I am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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Myself Reason Religious Subject Tolerance
You will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.
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Inspirational Motivational Yourself
God save us from people who mean well.
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God People Protection
Dear though the reader might be, I’d be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
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Myself Reading
Of course, the greater one’s need, the greater one’s propensity to be mesmerized.
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Greatness Mesmerize Need
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

And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.

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