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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.

Vikram Seth

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Vikram Seth
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 20
Librettist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Calcutta
Mind
Inspiration
Takes
Else
Everything
Thing

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To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
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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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I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.
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Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know.
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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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I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.
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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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I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.
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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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I am certainly not allergic to causes - particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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