Demographer Quotes by Vikram Seth

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• Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
• Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.
• Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person's power. Be just to yourself.
• And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink
• And the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of mine was…
• My eyes close. I am here and not here. A waking nap? A flight to the end of the galaxy and perhaps…
• Behind every door on every ordinary street, in every hut in every ordinary village in this middling planet of a trivial star,…
• To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away,
• I recall drinking sherry in California and dreaming of England, where I ate dalmoth and dreamed of Delhi. What is the purpose,…
• Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks…
• Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and I am…
• Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a…

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