The past is the past, and he can’t make amends, only hope that the gain will outlast the damage.
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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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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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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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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God save us from people who mean well.
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Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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You get your inspiration – suggestions – wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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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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To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
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I am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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I just love music – by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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I think if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
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Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored.
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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