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You can talk good ideas out of existence.

Vikram Seth

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
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
I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
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Book Feeling Media Myself News People Space Writing
The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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Inspirational Mindset Yourself
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
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
I am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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Myself Reason Religious Subject Tolerance
Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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God Life Man Partner
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
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
Dear though the reader might be, I’d be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
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Myself Reading
And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
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Equation Ink Writing
I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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Choice Myself
I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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Lazy Myself Natural Need Obsession Order
I just love music – by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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Eligible Imagination Love Music Myself Professional
In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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Myself Nation Temptation

You can talk good ideas out of existence.

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