Quietly 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.
VIKRAM SETHI think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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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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Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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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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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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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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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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I just love music – by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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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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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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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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And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
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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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