God save us from people who mean well.
VIKRAM SETHRevision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don’t have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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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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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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What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
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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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In life’s brief game to be a winner A man must have; oh yes, above All else, of course, someone to love.
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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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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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I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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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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Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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You get your inspiration – suggestions – wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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I think if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
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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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