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I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.

Vikram Seth

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
God save us from people who mean well.
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God People Protection
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
To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
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Hard Time Heart Broken Life Love Yourself
I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I’m quite happy to read stuff on any of them.
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Happiness Interest Myself Quite Subject
I want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.
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Book Interest Myself Reading
You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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Existence Goodness Ideas Talk Yourself
I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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Choice Myself
Dear though the reader might be, I’d be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
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Myself Reading
And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
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Equation Ink Writing
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
Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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Love Philosophy Rough
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
Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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Boredom Strong Writing
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
In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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Myself Nation Temptation

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