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I think if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.

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
In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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Myself Nation Temptation
God save us from people who mean well.
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God People Protection
Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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Boredom Strong Writing
Music, such music, is a sufficient gift. Why ask for happiness; why hope not to grieve? It is enough, it is to be blessed enough, to live from day to day and to hear such music-not too much, or the soul could not sustain it-from time to time.
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Blessing Enough Gift Grief Happiness Hope Music Soul Time
For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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Discipline Obsession Substitute Writing
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
Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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God Life Man Partner
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
It’s not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.
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Evil Fear God Heart Need Start
Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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Love Philosophy Rough
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 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
The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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Inspirational Mindset Yourself
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
Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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Dreams Inspirational Success Yourself

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