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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

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 don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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Choice Myself
I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens – not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens – should talk about things that matter to them.
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Citizenship Important Myself Talk Thinking Writing
In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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Myself Nation Temptation
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 have a reputation for being hermitlike. I’m not. I’m just obsessed with my work.
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Myself Obesession Reputation Work
You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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Imagination Myself Novel Poetry Writing
I think if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
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Action Myself Thinking Worth
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
For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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Discipline Obsession Substitute 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
Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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Boredom Strong Writing
Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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God Life Man Partner
Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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Love Philosophy Rough
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
I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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Life Myself Understand

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