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To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.

Vikram Seth

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
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
The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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Inspirational Mindset Yourself
Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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Boredom Strong Writing
For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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Discipline Obsession Substitute Writing
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
You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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Existence Goodness Ideas Talk Yourself
I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I’m not. I’m just obsessed with my work.
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Myself Obesession Reputation Work
And the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of mine was reading one of my books, and he clicked his tongue impatiently and shooed me off.
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Friendship Myself Patience Privacy Process Reading Room
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
Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people’s lives, the lives of people you don’t know, and you want to know what’s going to happen to them.
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Fiction Gossip Live People 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
I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens – not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens – should talk about things that matter to them.
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Citizenship Important Myself Talk Thinking Writing
I am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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Myself Reason Religious Subject Tolerance
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 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

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