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?
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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Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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I am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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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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You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
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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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The past is the past, and he can’t make amends, only hope that the gain will outlast the damage.
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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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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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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God save us from people who mean well.
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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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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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I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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