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.
VIKRAM SETHI just love music – by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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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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To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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I think it’s possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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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 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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God save us from people who mean well.
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I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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In life’s brief game to be a winner A man must have; oh yes, above All else, of course, someone to love.
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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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And the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of mine was reading one of my books, and he clicked his tongue impatiently and shooed me off.
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Don’t put things off till it’s too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
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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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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 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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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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God save us from people who mean well.
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The past is the past, and he can’t make amends, only hope that the gain will outlast the damage.
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And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I’m not. I’m just obsessed with my work.
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I don’t think anyone should be banned. If you don’t like a book, set it aside.
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Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored.
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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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Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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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 often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
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