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I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.

Vikram Seth

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 don’t think anyone should be banned. If you don’t like a book, set it aside.
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Book Myself Thinking
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
You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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Existence Goodness Ideas Talk Yourself
I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
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Book Feeling Media Myself News People Space Writing
I just love music – by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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Eligible Imagination Love Music Myself Professional
I am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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Myself Reason Religious Subject Tolerance
Dear though the reader might be, I’d be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
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Myself Reading
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
Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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Boredom Strong 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
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
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
Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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Dreams Inspirational Success 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
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

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