God save us from people who mean well.
VIKRAM SETHYou know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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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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I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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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 don’t think anyone should be banned. If you don’t like a book, set it aside.
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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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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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Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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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 am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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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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Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.
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Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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I just love music – by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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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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