I think it’s possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
VIKRAM SETHTo not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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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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To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
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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 don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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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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What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
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I want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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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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I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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