I am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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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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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It’s not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.
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Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out.
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I just love music – by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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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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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I’m not. I’m just obsessed with my work.
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You will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.
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There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.
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I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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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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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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In a painting, you can’t make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist’s stroke.
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God save us from people who mean well.
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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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