I am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
VIKRAM SETHWhat is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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I want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.
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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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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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The past is the past, and he can’t make amends, only hope that the gain will outlast the damage.
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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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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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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Fiction 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.
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Of course, the greater one’s need, the greater one’s propensity to be mesmerized.
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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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God save us from people who mean well.
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