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I just love music – by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.

Vikram Seth

Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.
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Happiness Person Place Power Thinking Yourself
God save us from people who mean well.
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God One Liner People Save
The past is the past, and he can’t make amends, only hope that the gain will outlast the damage.
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Change Damage Hope Past
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 know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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Imagination Myself Novel Poetry Writing
Dear though the reader might be, I’d be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
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Myself Reading
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
All you who sleep tonight Far from the ones you love, No hand to left or right, An emptiness above– Know that you aren’t alone. The whole world shares your tears, Some for two nights or one, And some for all your years.
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Hands Love Night Oneself Right Sleep Tears Yourself
You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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Existence Goodness Ideas Talk Yourself
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
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
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
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
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
Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored.
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Book Goodness Ignorance Praise

I just love music – by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.

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