What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
VIKRAM SETH
And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
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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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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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You get your inspiration – suggestions – wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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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 spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I’m enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.
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I think if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
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God save us from people who mean well.
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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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It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
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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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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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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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