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I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.

Vikram Seth

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Vikram Seth
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 20
Librettist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Calcutta
Counteracted
Laziness
Obsession
Natural
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Anything
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