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"The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can."
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"Things that you have remained 'sincere' to, those many things you have won. The world has to be won; only then will it let you go to moksha!"
"Luck ... taps once in a lifetime at everybody's door but if industry does not open it luck goes away."
"Live the Life of Your DreamsWhen you start living the life of your dreams, there will always be obstacles, doubters, mistakes and setbacks along the way. But with hard work, perseverance and self-belief there is no limit to what you can achieve."
"Show me your talents and I'll show you your net worth."
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"Our parents thought we might be corrupted by one another into becoming whatever it was they most feared: an incorrigible masturbator, a winsome homosexual, a recklessly impregnatory libertine. On our behalf they dreaded the closeness of adolescent friendship, the predatory behaviour of strangers on trains, the lure of the wrong kind of girl. How far their anxieties outran our experience."
"In my terms, I settled for the realities of life, and submitted to its necessities: if this, then that, and so the years passed. In Adrian's terms, I gave up on life, gave up on examining it, took it as it came. And so, for the first time, I began to feel a more general remorse - a feeling somewhere between self-pity and self-hatred - about my whole life. All of it. I had lost the friends of my youth. I had lost the love of my wife. I had abandoned the ambitions I had entertained. I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was."
"Love may not lead where we think or hope, but regardless of outcome it should be a call to seriousness and truth. If it is not that - if it is not moral in its effect - then love is no more than an exaggerated form of pleasure."
"Was this their exact exchange? Almost certainly not. Still, it is my best memory of their exchange."
"The dangerous charm of GPC was that everything in the world could be called up; if you didn't look out, a couple of sessions might turn you from a serious enquirer into a mere gape-mouthed browser."
"Time...give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical."
"He didn't really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, but not travel itself."
"The best form of government is one that is dying, because that means it's giving way to something else."
"If the writer were more like a reader, he'd be a reader, not a writer. It's as uncomplicated as that."
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