It’s not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.
VIKRAM SETHI 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.
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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Dear though the reader might be, I’d be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
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I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens – not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens – should talk about things that matter to them.
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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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Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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God save us from people who mean well.
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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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I am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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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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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 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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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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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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