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In life’s brief game to be a winner A man must have; oh yes, above All else, of course, someone to love.

Vikram Seth

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
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
You get your inspiration – suggestions – wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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Inspirational Mom Yourself
I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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Goodness Myself Nature Person Thinking World
I am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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Myself Reason Religious Subject Tolerance
You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally – your ears will know.
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Learning Natural Poetry Way Yourself
Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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Boredom Strong Writing
You will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.
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Inspirational Motivational Yourself
For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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Discipline Obsession Substitute 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
In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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Myself Nation Temptation
It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
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Beyond Excitement Intrigue Live Present Time
Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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God Life Man Partner
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
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
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

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