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.
VIKRAM SETHAll 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.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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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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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 think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don’t like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can’t write.
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I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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I think it’s possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check – it forces me to work harder at what I’m interested in.
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.
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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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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 often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
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