Vikram Seth Quotes
Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.
Vikram Seth
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
Abdullah II of Jordan
The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time when the Pictures Generation artists were getting started. They co-opted the language of advertising. The factory disappeared, and weirdly, so did the art object - it was the age of making gestures, not objects.
Rachel Kushner
In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
Pankaj Mishra
Village cricket spread fast through the land.
G. M. Trevelyan
I'm not looking to go out there and make a rhythmic Timbaland track.
Taylor Dayne
My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.
Vince Vaughn
My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.
Valerie Bertinelli
How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.
John Muir
Everyone says marriage is hard work, but they don't tell you that actually being yourself and respecting yourself is hard work.
Alexandra Fuller
I don't regret being topless in certain things, but there were some things in 'EastEnders' where there was no reason for me to be topless.
Ben Hardy
A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.
Jeremy Taylor
Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.
Vikram Seth