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

Vikram Seth

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
Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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Love Philosophy Rough
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 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
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
Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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Dreams Inspirational Success Yourself
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
And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
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Equation Ink Writing
I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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Choice Myself
Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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God Life Man Partner
For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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Discipline Obsession Substitute Writing
You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally – your ears will know.
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Learning Natural Poetry Way Yourself
Of course, the greater one’s need, the greater one’s propensity to be mesmerized.
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Greatness Mesmerize Need
I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I’m enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.
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Distract Economics Feeling Happiness Life Myself Novel Writing
I am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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Myself Reason Religious Subject Tolerance

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

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