God save us from people who mean well.
VIKRAM SETHIn 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.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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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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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored.
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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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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You get your inspiration – suggestions – wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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All you who sleep tonight Far from the ones you love, No hand to left or right, An emptiness above– Know that you aren’t alone. The whole world shares your tears, Some for two nights or one, And some for all your years.
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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 want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.
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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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I think it’s possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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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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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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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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