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Vikram Seth has 59 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.
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Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person's power. Be just to yourself.
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And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink
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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…
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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…
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Behind every door on every ordinary street, in every hut in every ordinary village in this middling planet of a trivial star,…
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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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I recall drinking sherry in California and dreaming of England, where I ate dalmoth and dreamed of Delhi. What is the purpose,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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In my view, I am often immensely rich, not in money, but (although just now perhaps not all the time) rich because…
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