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Vikram Inspirational Quotes (81)

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Either I will come back after hoisting the Tricolor, or I will come back wrapped in it, but I will be back for sure.
Vikram Batra
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The world is a story we tell ourselves about the world.
Vikram Chandra
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My father is quite conservative and religious, and hes been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
Vikram Chatwal
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Music used to be a lot more about angst for me. Now it's the only form of meditation I do.
Vikram Chatwal
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There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.
Vikram Chatwal
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I guess you could say I'm a model slash hotelier slash actor slash screenwriter.
Vikram Chatwal
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What went wrong is we had tremendous concentration in the sense we put a lot of our money to work against U.S. real estate. We got here by lending money, and putting money to work in the U.S. real estate market, in a size that was probably larger than what we ought to have done on a diversification basis.
Vikram Pandit
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One wants permissive individuals who do not have a compelling need to reassure themselves that they are leaders.
Vikram Sarabhai
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He who can listen to the music in the midst of noise can achieve great things.
Vikram Sarabhai
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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.
Vikram Seth
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I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
Vikram Seth
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God save us from people who mean well.
Vikram Seth
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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.
Vikram Seth
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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.
Vikram Seth
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Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.
Vikram Seth
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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.
Vikram Seth
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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?
Vikram Seth
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To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
Vikram Seth
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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.
Vikram Seth
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Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.
Vikram Seth
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
Vikram Seth
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I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.
Vikram Seth
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You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
Vikram Seth
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There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.
Vikram Seth
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