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I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.

Vikram Seth

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Vikram Seth
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 20
Librettist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Calcutta
Future
Accumulation
Around
Nostalgia
Seems
Novelists
Sometimes
Wander
Writing
Material
World
Merely
Materials
Seem
Accumulating

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