Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.
VIKRAM SETHOf course, the greater one’s need, the greater one’s propensity to be mesmerized.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.
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Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored.
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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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To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
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Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader’s experience. If it’s a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it’s a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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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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You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally – your ears will know.
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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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I just love music – by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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My eyes close. I am here and not here. A waking nap? A flight to the end of the galaxy and perhaps a couple of billion light-years beyond?
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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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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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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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