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Vikram Seth
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 20
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Calcutta
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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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It's not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.
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God save us from people who mean well.
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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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Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I'm enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.
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You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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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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Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
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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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Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person's power. Be just to yourself.
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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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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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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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I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
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