To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
VIKRAM SETHI 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.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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Those books of mine that are remunerative – I’m not talking about poetry here – take years to write, and I am never sure they’ll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one.
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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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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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What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
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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 pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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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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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored.
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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 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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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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God save us from people who mean well.
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