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You get your inspiration – suggestions – wherever you have to, even from your mother.

Vikram Seth

You get your inspiration – suggestions – wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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Inspirational Mom Yourself
I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check – it forces me to work harder at what I’m interested in.
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Force Hard Interest Kind Myself Simplicity Work
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
The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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Inspirational Mindset Yourself
Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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God Life Man Partner
I think it’s possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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Business Inspirational Myself Possible Talent Thinking Tree
God save us from people who mean well.
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God People Protection
Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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Love Philosophy Rough
Dear though the reader might be, I’d be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
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Myself Reading
Of course, the greater one’s need, the greater one’s propensity to be mesmerized.
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Greatness Mesmerize Need
I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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Future Material Nostalgia Time World
Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him.
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Book Help Himself Object Place Proper Seek True
In life’s brief game to be a winner A man must have; oh yes, above All else, of course, someone to love.
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Game Life Love Man Winner
Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don’t have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.
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Character Establishment Existence Happiness Revision Yourself
I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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Life Myself Understand
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

You get your inspiration – suggestions – wherever you have to, even from your mother.

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You get your inspiration – suggestions – wherever you have to, even from your mother.

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