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.
VIKRAM SETHAnd an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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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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You will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.
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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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You get your inspiration – suggestions – wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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I just love music – by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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God save us from people who mean well.
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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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Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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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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Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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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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I think if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
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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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