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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
Everything
Thing
Mind
Inspiration
Takes
Else

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My eyes close. I am here and not here. A waking nap? A flight to the end of the galaxy and perhaps a couple of billion light-years beyond?
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings they pick and choose me.
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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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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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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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Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do.
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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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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'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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Good music is good music, but it has to be good.
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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 sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.
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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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Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
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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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