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I think if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.

Vikram Seth

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
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
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
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
I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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Choice Myself
Dear though the reader might be, I’d be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
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Myself Reading
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 don’t think people give Indian society enough credit. We may not like to talk much about things but we do, basically, want to live and let live.
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Enough Live Myself People Talk Thinking
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
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
God save us from people who mean well.
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God People Protection
Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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God Life Man Partner
You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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Imagination Myself Novel Poetry Writing
So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
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English Language Novel Writing
In a painting, you can’t make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist’s stroke.
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Artist Paint Progress See Yourself
Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people’s lives, the lives of people you don’t know, and you want to know what’s going to happen to them.
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Fiction Gossip Live People Yourself

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