I think it’s possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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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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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Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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Dear though the reader might be, I’d be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
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I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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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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God save us from people who mean well.
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You will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.
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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.
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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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I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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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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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 an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
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I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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