Of course, the greater one’s need, the greater one’s propensity to be mesmerized.
VIKRAM SETHTo not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
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And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
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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 rarely listen to music while writing. If I don’t like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can’t write.
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I am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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All you who sleep tonight Far from the ones you love, No hand to left or right, An emptiness above– Know that you aren’t alone. The whole world shares your tears, Some for two nights or one, And some for all your years.
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Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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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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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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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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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 just love music – by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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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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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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