I just love music – by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
VIKRAM SETH
I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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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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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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Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored.
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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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I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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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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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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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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Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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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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I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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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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The past is the past, and he can’t make amends, only hope that the gain will outlast the damage.
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