I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
VIKRAM SETHFiction 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.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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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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You will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.
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Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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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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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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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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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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I am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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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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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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Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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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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