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

Vikram Seth

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
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
Dear though the reader might be, I’d be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
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Myself Reading
I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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Choice Myself
In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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Myself Nation Temptation
Music, such music, is a sufficient gift. Why ask for happiness; why hope not to grieve? It is enough, it is to be blessed enough, to live from day to day and to hear such music-not too much, or the soul could not sustain it-from time to time.
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Blessing Enough Gift Grief Happiness Hope Music Soul Time
I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check – it forces me to work harder at what I’m interested in.
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Force Hard Interest Kind Myself Simplicity Work
Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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God Life Man Partner
What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
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Difference Let Go Life Love Myself Relationship
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
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 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
For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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Discipline Obsession Substitute 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’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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Life Myself Understand
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

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

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