Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
VIKRAM SETHAll you who sleep tonight Far from the ones you love, No hand to left or right, An emptiness above– Know that you aren’t alone. The whole world shares your tears, Some for two nights or one, And some for all your years.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I’m quite happy to read stuff on any of them.
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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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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Of course, the greater one’s need, the greater one’s propensity to be mesmerized.
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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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Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people’s lives, the lives of people you don’t know, and you want to know what’s going to happen to them.
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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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So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
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I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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I just love music – by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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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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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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I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
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