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I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.

Vikram Seth

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
You will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.
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Inspirational Motivational Yourself
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
The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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Inspirational Mindset Yourself
I want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.
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Book Interest Myself Reading
I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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Future Material Nostalgia Time World
And the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of mine was reading one of my books, and he clicked his tongue impatiently and shooed me off.
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Friendship Myself Patience Privacy Process Reading Room
Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don’t have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.
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Character Establishment Existence Happiness Revision Yourself
Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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Love Philosophy Rough
I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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Choice Myself
And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
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Equation Ink 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 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
It’s not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.
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Evil Fear God Heart Need Start
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 spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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Myself Nation Temptation

I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.

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