Those who ask you to grow up have grown old.

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When asked
who is the greatest lover
ever born,
you don't speak of
Romeo-Juliet, Heer-Raanjha
or Saleem-Anarkali.
You say Albert Einstein.

Why? I ask, perplexed.
Only he understood,
you elaborate,
how your time and my space,
and my time and your space
are inseparable.

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The biggest mistake people do is they get married or start living with their partner before discovering the joy of being alone. Your life is not given to you to bring forth the next generation, but to take this generation towards the next with your work, your art, your app, your book, your product and your quote. :P

Once you have fallen in love with being alone, then find someone like you and join hands to create new things together.

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When I meet writers who have been at it for decades, we rarely talk about writing. We talk about life, our daily routine, food and relationships, books we read and gossip and scandals about famous authors who are up there. What I'm really interested in is what do they do besides writing for that defines how interesting the writers are in real, and how interesting their prose will be. Writing in a lot of ways is about living and then expressing about how one has lived in retrospect. Conversation about writing isn't writing but writing is a conversation.

Writing is such a solitary act that the best way
to talk about it is writing itself.

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Your complexion becomes two shades darker.




You learn to not give a damn to
such petty things!

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I think to create anything worth significance in life, one has to find comfort in being alone (and also the idea of being alone) without feeling lonely. If the idea of being by yourself for days, months or years scares you, you won't be able to create anything original, anything that's truly your own because you won't ever find the silence necessary to listen to your true voice. It will be eclipsed by the noise of people around you. The first proof of creativity is being able to create solitude out of loneliness.

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Life without an ice-cream is like a journey through the desert, life with an ice-cream is like a journey with the dessert.

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When I was in school, I admired those who spoke well. When I was in college and through most of my early twenties, I admired those who wrote well.

Now, thanks to acquainting myself with several of those smooth talkers and fine writers who turned out of be infuriatingly unaccountable and unprofessional, I have started to admire only those who act (as in execute) well.

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Welcome
to the city of masks
where you won't ever find
the selfishness lurking
beneath those faux
sugary smiles, smiles
that stole this city's
sense of smell, and
left it with a
wry sense of humour.

Now, when the city
has made masks
compulsory for those
who can afford
to smile & spew smoke,
you don't get its joke.

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I painted your face
and hung it behind my books.
It falls everytime I don't read.

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