Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
VIKRAM SETHThink of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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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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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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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 think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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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 don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
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I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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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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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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Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored.
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Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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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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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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Don’t put things off till it’s too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
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