I think if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
VIKRAM SETHIn life’s brief game to be a winner A man must have; oh yes, above All else, of course, someone to love.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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God save us from people who mean well.
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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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To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
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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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Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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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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You get your inspiration – suggestions – wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
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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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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored.
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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 need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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Of course, the greater one’s need, the greater one’s propensity to be mesmerized.
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