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 SETHIs it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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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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Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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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 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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It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
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Dear though the reader might be, I’d be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
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And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
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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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God save us from people who mean well.
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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I am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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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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I just love music – by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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God save us from people who mean well.
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You will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.
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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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I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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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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Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader’s experience. If it’s a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it’s a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.
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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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I want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.
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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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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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Of course, the greater one’s need, the greater one’s propensity to be mesmerized.
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