Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
VIKRAM SETHIn spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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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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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 think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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God save us from people who mean well.
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You get your inspiration – suggestions – wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens – not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens – should talk about things that matter to them.
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And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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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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Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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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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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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