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Vikram Seth Inspirational Quotes (58)

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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 sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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God save us from people who mean well.
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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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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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Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.
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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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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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To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
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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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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.
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.
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You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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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.
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I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.
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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 often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
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I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
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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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I am certainly not allergic to causes - particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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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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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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