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I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.

Vikram Seth

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Vikram Seth
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 20
Librettist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Calcutta
Imagination
Music
Love
Professionally
Competent
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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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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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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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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 am certainly not allergic to causes - particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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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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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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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 often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
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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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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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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 recall drinking sherry in California and dreaming of England, where I ate dalmoth and dreamed of Delhi. What is the purpose, I wonder, of all this restlessness? I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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God save us from people who mean well.
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