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Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him.
Vikram Seth
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Vikram Seth
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 20
Librettist
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Calcutta
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Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established the characters already exist. You don't have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.
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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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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
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Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and I am never sure they'll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one.
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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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I don't think people give Indian society enough credit. We may not like to talk much about things but we do, basically, want to live and let live.
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