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Good music is good music, but it has to be good.

Vikram Seth

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Vikram Seth
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 20
Librettist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Calcutta
Music
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I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can't write.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings they pick and choose me.
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Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do.
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I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.
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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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Music, such music, is a sufficient gift. Why ask for happiness why hope not to grieve? It is enough, it is to be blessed enough, to live from day to day and to hear such music-not too much, or the soul could not sustain it-from time to time.
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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.
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You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I'm enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.
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And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink
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I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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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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There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.
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Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him.
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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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It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
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