The past is the past, and he can’t make amends, only hope that the gain will outlast the damage.
VIKRAM SETHI think if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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God save us from people who mean well.
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Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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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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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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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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Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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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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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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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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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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I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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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.
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Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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