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What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.

Vikram Seth

You will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.
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Inspirational Motivational Yourself
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
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’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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Life Myself Understand
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
For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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Discipline Obsession Substitute Writing
Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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Dreams Inspirational Success Yourself
Music, such music, is a sufficient gift. Why ask for happiness; why hope not to grieve? It is enough, it is to be blessed enough, to live from day to day and to hear such music-not too much, or the soul could not sustain it-from time to time.
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Blessing Enough Gift Grief Happiness Hope Music Soul Time
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
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
I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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Choice Myself
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
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
Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader’s experience. If it’s a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it’s a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.
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Elegant Experience Face Poetry Reading Sad Story Thinking
You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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Existence Goodness Ideas Talk Yourself

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