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I don’t think anyone should be banned. If you don’t like a book, set it aside.

Vikram Seth

Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.
VIKRAM SETH

Happiness Person Place Power Thinking Yourself
I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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Choice Myself
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
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.
VIKRAM SETH

Distract Economics Feeling Happiness Life Myself Novel Writing
Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.
VIKRAM SETH

Happiness Kind Person Place Power Think Yourself
Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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Dreams Inspirational Success Yourself
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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Hands Love Night Oneself Right Sleep Tears Yourself
It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
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Beyond Excitement Intrigue Live Present Time
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
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 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 tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I’m quite happy to read stuff on any of them.
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Happiness Interest Myself Quite Subject
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
Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored.
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Book Goodness Ignorance Praise
I think if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
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Action Myself Thinking Worth
I just love music – by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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Eligible Imagination Love Music Myself Professional

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