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

Vikram Seth

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
I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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Life Myself Understand
I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I’m not. I’m just obsessed with my work.
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Myself Obesession Reputation Work
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
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
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
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 sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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Future Material Nostalgia Time World
I think it’s possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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Business Inspirational Myself Possible Talent Thinking Tree
You get your inspiration – suggestions – wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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Inspirational Mom Yourself
There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.
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Carry Feeling Goodness Man 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 spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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Myself Nation Temptation
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
Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.
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Happiness Kind Person Place Power Think Yourself
God save us from people who mean well.
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God One Liner People Save

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