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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.

Vikram Seth

For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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Discipline Obsession Substitute Writing
God save us from people who mean well.
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God People Protection
Of course, the greater one’s need, the greater one’s propensity to be mesmerized.
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Greatness Mesmerize Need
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
Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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Boredom Strong Writing
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
In a painting, you can’t make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist’s stroke.
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Artist Paint Progress See Yourself
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
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
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
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
The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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Inspirational Mindset 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
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
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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Eligible Imagination Love Music Myself Professional

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