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Of course, the greater one’s need, the greater one’s propensity to be mesmerized.

Vikram Seth

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
In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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Myself Nation Temptation
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
I don’t think people give Indian society enough credit. We may not like to talk much about things but we do, basically, want to live and let live.
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Enough Live Myself People Talk Thinking
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 don’t think anyone should be banned. If you don’t like a book, set it aside.
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Book Myself Thinking
I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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Goodness Myself Nature Person Thinking World
I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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Choice Myself
Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out.
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Burn Calm Earth Flow Hate Human Knowledge Quiet Race River
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
God save us from people who mean well.
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God One Liner People Save
Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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Boredom Strong 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
And the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of mine was reading one of my books, and he clicked his tongue impatiently and shooed me off.
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Friendship Myself Patience Privacy Process Reading Room
You will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.
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Inspirational Motivational 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

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