Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
VIKRAM SETHDon’t put things off till it’s too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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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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I think if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
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I want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.
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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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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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The past is the past, and he can’t make amends, only hope that the gain will outlast the damage.
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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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Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I’m enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.
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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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I don’t think anyone should be banned. If you don’t like a book, set it aside.
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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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God save us from people who mean well.
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