Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
VIKRAM SETHQuietly 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.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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I just love music – by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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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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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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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 sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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I am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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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 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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I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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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’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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To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
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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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Dear though the reader might be, I’d be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
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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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