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God save us from people who mean well.

Vikram Seth

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Vikram Seth
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 20
Librettist
Novelist
Poet
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Calcutta
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You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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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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Good music is good music, but it has to be good.
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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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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 if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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In life's brief game to be a winner A man must have...oh yes, above All else, of course, someone to love.
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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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So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check - it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in.
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And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings they pick and choose me.
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I am certainly not allergic to causes - particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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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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Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.
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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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