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To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.

Vikram Seth

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Vikram Seth
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 20
Librettist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Calcutta
Wrenched
Away
Able
Love
Life

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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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I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
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I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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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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I am certainly not allergic to causes - particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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