The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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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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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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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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Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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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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Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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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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I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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All you who sleep tonight Far from the ones you love, No hand to left or right, An emptiness above– Know that you aren’t alone. The whole world shares your tears, Some for two nights or one, And some for all your years.
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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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And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
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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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Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him.
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