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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 simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check - it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in.
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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?
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And the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of mine was reading one of my books, and he clicked his tongue impatiently and shooed me off.
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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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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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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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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It's not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.
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I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
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I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
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I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out.
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You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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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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I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.
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I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
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