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

Vikram Seth

You get your inspiration – suggestions – wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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Inspirational Mom Yourself
Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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Love Philosophy Rough
Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored.
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Book Goodness Ignorance Praise
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
Those books of mine that are remunerative – I’m not talking about poetry here – take years to write, and I am never sure they’ll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one.
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Book Oneself Poetry Risk Success Talk Writing
The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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Inspirational Mindset Yourself
Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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Dreams Inspirational Success 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
Don’t put things off till it’s too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
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Fate Late Time Yourself
Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader’s experience. If it’s a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it’s a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.
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Elegant Experience Face Poetry Reading Sad Story Thinking
I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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Life Myself Understand
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
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
For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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Discipline Obsession Substitute Writing
God save us from people who mean well.
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God One Liner People Save
God save us from people who mean well.
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God People Protection

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

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