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 SETHI need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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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It’s not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.
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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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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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Of course, the greater one’s need, the greater one’s propensity to be mesmerized.
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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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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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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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The past is the past, and he can’t make amends, only hope that the gain will outlast the damage.
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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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Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people’s lives, the lives of people you don’t know, and you want to know what’s going to happen to them.
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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I’m not. I’m just obsessed with my work.
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