And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
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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.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
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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 think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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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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The past is the past, and he can’t make amends, only hope that the gain will outlast the damage.
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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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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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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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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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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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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Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored.
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I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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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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