I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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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To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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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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Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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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 think it’s possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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My eyes close. I am here and not here. A waking nap? A flight to the end of the galaxy and perhaps a couple of billion light-years beyond?
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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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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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I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored.
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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 don’t think anyone should be banned. If you don’t like a book, set it aside.
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I just love music – by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don’t have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.
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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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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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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.
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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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I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens – not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens – should talk about things that matter to them.
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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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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 don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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You will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.
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Of course, the greater one’s need, the greater one’s propensity to be mesmerized.
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