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And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.

Vikram Seth

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
And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
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Equation Ink 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
Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don’t have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.
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Character Establishment Existence Happiness Revision Yourself
I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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Choice Myself
I just love music – by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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Eligible Imagination Love Music Myself Professional
God save us from people who mean well.
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God One Liner People Save
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
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
In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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Myself Nation Temptation
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
For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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Discipline Obsession Substitute Writing
Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people’s lives, the lives of people you don’t know, and you want to know what’s going to happen to them.
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Fiction Gossip Live People Yourself
Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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God Life Man Partner
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 will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.
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Inspirational Motivational Yourself

And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.

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