God save us from people who mean well.
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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So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
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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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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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Don’t put things off till it’s too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
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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 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 am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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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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Of course, the greater one’s need, the greater one’s propensity to be mesmerized.
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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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Dear though the reader might be, I’d be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
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In life’s brief game to be a winner A man must have; oh yes, above All else, of course, someone to love.
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