I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
VIKRAM SETHI think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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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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Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.
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I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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Don’t put things off till it’s too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
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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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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I’m not. I’m just obsessed with my work.
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Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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Dear though the reader might be, I’d be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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The past is the past, and he can’t make amends, only hope that the gain will outlast the damage.
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What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
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