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.
VIKRAM SETHFiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people’s lives, the lives of people you don’t know, and you want to know what’s going to happen to them.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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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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God save us from people who mean well.
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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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My eyes close. I am here and not here. A waking nap? A flight to the end of the galaxy and perhaps a couple of billion light-years beyond?
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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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I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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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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I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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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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I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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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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Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader’s experience. If it’s a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it’s a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.
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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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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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