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Don't put things off till it's too late. You are the DJ of your fate.

Vikram Seth

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Vikram Seth
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 20
Librettist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Calcutta
Till
Fate
Late
Things

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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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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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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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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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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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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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You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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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 don't pick and choose subjects or settings they pick and choose me.
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It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
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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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Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person's power. Be just to yourself.
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In life's brief game to be a winner A man must have...oh yes, above All else, of course, someone to love.
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Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.
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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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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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Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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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 simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check - it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in.
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