I just love music – by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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You get your inspiration – suggestions – wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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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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Don’t put things off till it’s too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
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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 need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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I want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.
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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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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I’m not. I’m just obsessed with my work.
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Of course, the greater one’s need, the greater one’s propensity to be mesmerized.
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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 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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Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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