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Vikram Seth

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Vikram Seth
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 20
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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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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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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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Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established the characters already exist. You don't have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.
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All you who sleep tonight Far from the ones you love, No hand to left or right, An emptiness above-- Know that you aren't alone. The whole world shares your tears, Some for two nights or one, And some for all your years.
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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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Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
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In general, questions are fine you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those. And one has to remember when answering questions that asking questions isn't easy either, and for someone who's quite shy to stand up in an audience to speak takes some courage.
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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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What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
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I don't think people give Indian society enough credit. We may not like to talk much about things but we do, basically, want to live and let live.
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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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Good music is good music, but it has to be good.
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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink
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I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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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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I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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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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