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I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.

Vikram Seth

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Vikram Seth
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 20
Librettist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Calcutta
Worth
Wells
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Something
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You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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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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You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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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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God save us from people who mean well.
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I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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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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Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do.
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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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Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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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 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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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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Good music is good music, but it has to be good.
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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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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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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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I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.
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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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