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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'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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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 get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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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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Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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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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Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and I am never sure they'll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one.
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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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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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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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What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
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God save us from people who mean well.
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Don't put things off till it's too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
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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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I am certainly not allergic to causes - particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
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In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist's stroke.
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