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.
VIKRAM SETHIn 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.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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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 don’t think anyone should be banned. If you don’t like a book, set it aside.
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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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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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And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
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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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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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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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Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader’s experience. If it’s a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it’s a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.
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I am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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I want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.
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So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
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You will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.
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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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