And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
VIKRAM SETHI 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.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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Revision 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.
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God save us from people who mean well.
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The past is the past, and he can’t make amends, only hope that the gain will outlast the damage.
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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 sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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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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Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.
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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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My eyes close. I am here and not here. A waking nap? A flight to the end of the galaxy and perhaps a couple of billion light-years beyond?
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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 have a reputation for being hermitlike. I’m not. I’m just obsessed with my work.
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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 often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
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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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