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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?

Vikram Seth

Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored.
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Book Goodness Ignorance Praise
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
God save us from people who mean well.
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God People Protection
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 am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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Myself Reason Religious Subject Tolerance
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
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
You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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Imagination Myself Novel Poetry Writing
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
I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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Choice Myself
The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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Inspirational Mindset Yourself
You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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Existence Goodness Ideas Talk Yourself
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
I want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.
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Book Interest Myself Reading

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