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Vikram Inspirational Quotes (81)

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I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
Vikram Seth
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Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
Vikram Seth
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How can you tell drops not to fall when rain exists.... How can you tell leaves not to fall when wind exist.... And how can you tell me not to fall in love when you exist...
Vikram
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In general, questions are fine you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those. And one has to remember when answering questions that asking questions isn't easy either, and for someone who's quite shy to stand up in an audience to speak takes some courage.
Vikram Seth
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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.
Vikram Seth
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There's no question the crisis demonstrated that the bank system didn't work. And when you looked at the aftermath of the crisis, what needed to be done. You had to make sure banks got back to the basics of banking, and that they had to address the trust issue.
Vikram Pandit
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Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out.
Vikram Seth
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Having created a business that is a success, when you are in a nepotistic situation, people who don't do anything themselves, well, it is easy for them to say it's never good enough.
Vikram Chatwal
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
Vikram Seth
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Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and I am never sure they'll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one.
Vikram Seth
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
Vikram Seth
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
Vikram Seth
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You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know.
Vikram Seth
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Dreams take you beyond what you think you can do in life.
Vikram Chatwal
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I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.
Vikram Seth
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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.
Vikram Seth
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I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
Vikram Seth
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Good music is good music, but it has to be good.
Vikram Seth
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I believe in numbers and signs.
Vikram Chatwal
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I recall drinking sherry in California and dreaming of England, where I ate dalmoth and dreamed of Delhi. What is the purpose, I wonder, of all this restlessness? I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
Vikram Seth
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Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
Vikram Seth
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People think money is life and your life is over if you lose it.
Vikram Chatwal
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And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink
Vikram Seth
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Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored
Vikram
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