Don’t put things off till it’s too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
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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To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
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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 don’t think anyone should be banned. If you don’t like a book, set it aside.
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Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don’t have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.
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You will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.
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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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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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I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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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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Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out.
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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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Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.
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And the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of mine was reading one of my books, and he clicked his tongue impatiently and shooed me off.
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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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