I think if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
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 life’s brief game to be a winner A man must have; oh yes, above All else, of course, someone to love.
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God save us from people who mean well.
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I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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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 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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Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.
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Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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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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Dear though the reader might be, I’d be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
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I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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I want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.
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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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I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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