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I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.

Vikram Seth

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
I don’t think anyone should be banned. If you don’t like a book, set it aside.
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Book Myself Thinking
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
For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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Discipline Obsession Substitute Writing
Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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Boredom Strong Writing
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
You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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Existence Goodness Ideas Talk Yourself
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
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
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
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 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
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
You get your inspiration – suggestions – wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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Inspirational Mom Yourself
You will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.
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Inspirational Motivational Yourself

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