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I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.

Vikram Seth

You will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.
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Inspirational Motivational Yourself
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
And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
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Equation Ink Writing
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
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
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
Dear though the reader might be, I’d be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
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Myself Reading
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
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
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
God save us from people who mean well.
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God People Protection
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
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
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
Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored.
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Book Goodness Ignorance Praise
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

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