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.
VIKRAM SETHI often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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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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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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Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.
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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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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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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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God save us from people who mean well.
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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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Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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Of course, the greater one’s need, the greater one’s propensity to be mesmerized.
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Those books of mine that are remunerative – I’m not talking about poetry here – take years to write, and I am never sure they’ll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one.
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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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Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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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 think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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