Vikram Seth An Equal Music Quotes

#1. What is your greatest ambition in life?'
'To become immortal ... and then die.

Jean-Luc Godard

#2. [The popular impression about some chemists is that] the aquafortis and the chlorine of the laboratories have as effectually bleached the poetry out of them, as they destroy the colours of tissues exposed to their action.

George Wilson

#3. The word 'happiness' always bothered me, partly because it was scientifically unwieldy and meant a lot of different things to different people, and also because it's subjective.

Martin Seligman

#4. Christians often want to hide behind the walls of the church, where we are comfortable, but sometimes we have to come out of the box.

Cheryl James

#5. A woman does not need to live among many people to be content. She needs but one true companion, one soul mate with whom to share this long journey we call life.

Mary Alice Monroe

#6. Get over it people, I worked my ass off.

Phil Heath

#7. One must ask for death to know how good it is to live

Alexandre Dumas

#8. Avocados, it's a food that ain't worth injuring yourself for. If it's a hassle to get into, leave it to the experts.

Karl Pilkington

#9. It will be a dream come true if I can go there and lift it.

Steven Gerrard

#10. Kira had a warrior's spirit inside her sleek, feminine frame, for true valor was best revealed when defeat was inevitable.

Jeaniene Frost

#11. Numerous are the posthumous museums and memorials devoted exclusively to one artist, architect or author and designed to preserve or artificially reconstruct the namesake's original working or living conditions.

Hans Ulrich Obrist

#12. Must Thibault imagine the animal (who was long since dead but when and how? He couldn't remember) skinned and braised? Milou as dinner. Once something is named it can never be eaten. Once you have called it brother in your mind it should enjoy the freedoms of a brother.

Ann Patchett

#13. My eyes close. I am here and not here. A waking nap? A flight to the end of the galaxy and perhaps a couple of billion light-years beyond?

Vikram Seth