Don’t put things off till it’s too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
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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You get your inspiration – suggestions – wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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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 am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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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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And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
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I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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You will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.
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I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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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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I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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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 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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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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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 it’s possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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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 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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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people’s lives, the lives of people you don’t know, and you want to know what’s going to happen to them.
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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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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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God save us from people who mean well.
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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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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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