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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
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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 certainly think its very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.
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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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What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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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 need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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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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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 can talk good ideas out of existence.
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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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You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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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 recall drinking sherry in California and dreaming of England, where I ate dalmoth and dreamed of Delhi. What is the purpose, I wonder, of all this restlessness? I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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God save us from people who mean well.
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In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist's stroke.
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So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
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