"Put your backbone where your wishbone is." — Vikram Seth
"Put your backbone where your wishbone is."
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Vikram Seth
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59 Quotes by Vikram Seth
Vikram Seth has 59 quotes on this site.
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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…
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My eyes close. I am here and not here. A waking nap? A flight to the end of the galaxy…
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Behind every door on every ordinary street, in every hut in every ordinary village in this middling planet of a…
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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…
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Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless…
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Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and…
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Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give…
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All over India, all over the world, as the sun or the shadow of darkness moves from east to west,…
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It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone.
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Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.
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The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
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Hardy, I do believe they have done it at last... my backbone is shot through.
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No law can give Congress a backbone if it refuses to stand off as the coequal branch the Constitution made…
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The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those…
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To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
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