Vijay Seshadri Quotes

• Society imposes an identity on you because of the way you look. Your struggle as a self has to do with an identity being imposed on you that you know is not your identity.

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  Struggle, Self, Identity

  "You Are Vijay Seshadri". Interview with Laura Standley, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.

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• Probablemente tengas que dividirte en varias partes para poder sobrevivir y considerarte una multitud.

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  Thinking, Order, Splits

  "You Are Vijay Seshadri". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.

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• All ideas about identity, of course, fit perfectly into the social media wonderland we live in. They seem to really connect. There's a science-fiction aspect to our contemporary life. What's virtual, what's real.

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  Real, Media, Ideas

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• Language itself is a mask. It's the first mask in the series of invented selves - they've come right out of language. The way you speak changes you, because when you are speaking, you are representing yourself in a certain way.

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  Self, Way, Firsts

  "You Are Vijay Seshadri". Interview with Laura Standley, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.

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• El sol hace lo que hace porque la tierra se inclina.

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  Doe, Tilt, Earth

  Vijay Seshadri (1996). “Wild Kingdom: Poems”, Graywolf Press

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• I would say that when I write prose I'm a more socially responsible person. I'm much more a citizen of the world. But the instability of the poetry, the emotional jaggedness, is also me.

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  Writing, Emotional, World

  "You Are Vijay Seshadri". Interview with Laura Standley, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.

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• Orwell says somewhere that no one ever writes the real story of their life. The real story of a life is the story of its humiliations.

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  Real, Writing, Stories

  Vijay Seshadri, “Memoir”

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• You don't think of yourself as your external representation, or even your national origin or anything like that. You don't reduce yourself to that. That's kind of unthinkable.

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  Thinking, Kind, Think Of You

  "You Are Vijay Seshadri". Interview with Laura Standley, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.

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• I was always a reader. In the fifth grade, I got some sort of prize for having read hundreds of books from the library.

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  Book, Library, Fifth Grade

  "You Are Vijay Seshadri". Interview with Laura Standley, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.

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• We all think of ourselves as our subjectivity, our consciousness.

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  Thinking, Subjectivity, Consciousness

  "You Are Vijay Seshadri". Interview with Laura Standley, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.

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• I see myself only sporadically as a teacher and consistently as a writer. Teaching is how I pay the bills...and fortunately, for my students, I can intellectualize about writing, and I can talk about it well, and I like to talk about it.

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  Teacher, Teaching, Writing

  "You Are Vijay Seshadri". Interview with Laura Standley, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.

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• Vivimos en un periodo trans. Las cuestiones contemporáneas de la sexualidad, por ejemplo - sus aspectos más excitantes - tienen que ver con la transgeneridad. Y está la transnacionalidad. Hay gente como yo, por ejemplo. Quiero decir, ¿qué soy? ¿Soy indio? ¿Soy estadounidense? Y no soy el único que está entre dos cosas.

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  Media, Problemas, Gente

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• These new theories of the universe, that there are multiple universes just bubbling up constantly - it's all pretty wild.

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  Theory, Multiple, Universe

  "You Are Vijay Seshadri". Interview with Laura Standley, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.

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• I resist thinking of myself as a teacher. I think of myself as a writer who has pulled a fast one and hoodwinked this institution into giving me a job and health insurance.

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  Teacher, Jobs, Thinking

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• I could say that in the essay, as it has developed historically, success is determined by the writer's ability to express, through an individual voice, a collective experience - you are speaking individually but you are representing collectively.

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  Voice, Determined, Individual

  "You Are Vijay Seshadri". Interview with Laura Standley, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.

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• I think that when you reveal things that are going to cause pain, you have rhetorical resources in poetry.

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  Pain, Thinking, Causes

  "You Are Vijay Seshadri". Interview with Laura Standley, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.

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• When you're an immigrant, you're at the bottom of the ladder. You might not be at the bottom of the ladder economically. Those contradictions led me to feel that the role in society I was given didn't jive with my sense of myself. I think, in fact, that is the case with most people. Everybody feels themselves to be in an original relationship to creation, and feels confined by their social role.

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  Thinking, People, Ladders

  "You Are Vijay Seshadri". Interview with Laura Standley, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.

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• Technology is transforming everything. Who knows what it's doing, we don't really understand it.

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  Technology, Transforming, Knows

  "You Are Vijay Seshadri". Interview with Laura Standley, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.

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• It's important for all writers to try to figure out what they're doing.

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  Important, Trying, Figures

  "You Are Vijay Seshadri". Interview with Laura Standley, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.

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• Historically, there are hierarchies of purity. Certain aspects of poetry are very, very pure. The lyric poem can't be anything but the lyric poem.

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  Hierarchy, Purity, Aspect

  "You Are Vijay Seshadri". Interview with Laura Standley, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.

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• Los géneros tienen una historia e imponen un carácter histórico al escritor. Lo que es interesante en el poema implica un cierto tipo de dramatización del yo que no es necesario llevar a cabo en el ensayo. De hecho, el ensayo es un medio más social que el poema.

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  Character, Self, Interesting

  "You Are Vijay Seshadri". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.

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