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Vikram Seth
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 20
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Calcutta
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Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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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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Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.
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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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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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Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
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God save us from people who mean well.
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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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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
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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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I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I'm quite happy to read stuff on any of them.
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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Don't put things off till it's too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
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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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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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I am certainly not allergic to causes - particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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