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I think it’s possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.

Vikram Seth

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 don’t think anyone should be banned. If you don’t like a book, set it aside.
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Book Myself Thinking
And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
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Equation Ink Writing
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
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 think if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
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Action Myself Thinking Worth
Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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Boredom Strong Writing
Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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Love Philosophy Rough
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 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 One Liner People Save
In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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Myself Nation Temptation
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
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
You get your inspiration – suggestions – wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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Inspirational Mom Yourself
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

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