I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
VIKRAM SETHI think it’s possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens – not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens – should talk about things that matter to them.
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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.
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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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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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Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.
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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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There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.
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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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I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I’m enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.
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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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Don’t put things off till it’s too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
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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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Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
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I want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.
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