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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.

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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I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.
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I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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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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Don't put things off till it's too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
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I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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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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I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
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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.
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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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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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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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Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person's power. Be just to yourself.
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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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You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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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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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings they pick and choose me.
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