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

Vikram Seth

Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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Love Philosophy Rough
Don’t put things off till it’s too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
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Fate Late Time Yourself
Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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God Life Man Partner
I want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.
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Book Interest Myself Reading
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
Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored.
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Book Goodness Ignorance Praise
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
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
Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.
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Happiness Person Place Power Thinking Yourself
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
You will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.
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Inspirational Motivational Yourself
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
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
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 just love music – by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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Eligible Imagination Love Music Myself Professional

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