You will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.
VIKRAM SETHI 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.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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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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I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
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And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
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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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I don’t think people give Indian society enough credit. We may not like to talk much about things but we do, basically, want to live and let live.
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In a painting, you can’t make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist’s stroke.
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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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I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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I want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.
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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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To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
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Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader’s experience. If it’s a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it’s a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.
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Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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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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