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.
VIKRAM SETHQuietly 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.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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I want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.
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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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Of course, the greater one’s need, the greater one’s propensity to be mesmerized.
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I think if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
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I am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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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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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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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check – it forces me to work harder at what I’m interested in.
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I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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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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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 tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I’m quite happy to read stuff on any of them.
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