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Vikram Seth
14 quotes
“Some men like Jack and some like Jill I'm glad I like them both but still I wonder if this freewheeling Really is an enlightened thing, Or is its greater scope a sign Of deviance from some party line? In the strict ranks of Gay and Straight What is my status: Stray? Or Great?”
Vikram Seth (born 1952) first seen 1980 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dubious", Mappings (1980)
“All you who sleep tonight Far from the ones you love, No hands to left or right, And emptiness above— Know that you aren’t alone. The whole world shares your tears, Some for two nights or one, And some for all their years.”
Vikram Seth (born 1952) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: All You Who Sleep Tonight", All You Who Sleep Tonight (1990)
“Imagining the flower-pot attacked it The kitten flung the violets near and far And yet, who knows? This morning, as I backed it, My car was set upon by a parked car.”
Vikram Seth (born 1952) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Malefic Things", All You Who Sleep Tonight (1990)
“'You too will marry a boy I choose,' said Mrs Rupa Mehra firmly to her younger daughter. Lata avoided the maternal imperative by looking around the great lamp-lit garden of Prem Nivas. The wedding-guests were gathered on the lawn. 'Hmm,' she said. This annoyed her mother further.”
Vikram Seth (born 1952) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Suitable Boy (1993) 1.1
“[T]hink of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.”
Vikram Seth (born 1952) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Suitable Boy (1993) 17.4
“Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?”
Vikram Seth (born 1952) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: An Equal Music (1999) 7.5
“What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.”
Vikram Seth (born 1952) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: An Equal Music (1999) 8.6
“In life's brief game to be a winner A man must have...oh yes, above All else, of course, someone to love.”
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“They go to work, attend a meeting, Write an equation, have a beer, Hail colleagues with a cheerful greeting, Are conscientious, sane, sincere, Rational, able, and fastidious. Through hardened casings no invidious Tapeworm of doubt, no guilt, no qualm Pierces to sabotage their calm. When something's technically attractive, You follow the conception through, That's all. What if you leave a slew Of living dead, of radioactive "Collateral damage" in its wake? It's just a job, for heaven's sake.”
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“Catholic and Episcopalian, Lutheran, Baptist, Methodist, Jew, Muslim, Buddhist, atheist, We are all here; no one is alien Now radiation's common laws Impel us into common cause.”
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“Workers of Lungless Labs—when dying Will you be proud you were midwife To implements exemplifying Assault against the heart of life? If you had scruples, you betrayed them. What pastoral response acquits Those who made ovens for Auschwitz? You knew their purpose, yet you made them. Indeed, it's said that the banality Of evil is its greatest shock. It jokes, it punches its time clock, Plays with its kids. The triviality Of slaughtering millions can't impinge Upon its peace, or make it cringe.”
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“Killing is dying. This equation Carries no mystical import. It is the literal truth. Our nation Has long believed war was a sport. Unoccupied, unbombed, undying, While 'over there' the shells were flying, How could we know the Russian dread Of war, the mountains of their dead? We reveled in acceleration At every level of the race; And even now we're face to face With mutual extermination We talk as blithely as before Of 'surgical strikes' and 'limited war.'”
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“Ten hostages is terrorism; A million, and it's strategy. To ban books is fanaticism; To threaten in totality All culture and all civilization, All humankind and all creation, This is a task of decorous skill And needs high statesmanship and will.”
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“How ugly babies are! How heedless Of all else than their bulging selves— Like sumo wrestlers, plush with needless Kneadable flesh-like mutant elves, Plump and vindictively nocturnal, With lungs determined and infernal (A pity that the blubbering blobs Come unequipped with volume knobs).”
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