I don’t think people give Indian society enough credit. We may not like to talk much about things but we do, basically, want to live and let live.
VIKRAM SETHEvery object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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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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To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
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I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
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Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him.
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I don’t think anyone should be banned. If you don’t like a book, set it aside.
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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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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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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You will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.
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I just love music – by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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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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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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I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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