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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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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.
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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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To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
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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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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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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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God save us from people who mean well.
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Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.
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Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and I am never sure they'll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one.
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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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What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
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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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Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.
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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 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 know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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All you who sleep tonight Far from the ones you love, No hand to left or right, An emptiness above-- Know that you aren't alone. The whole world shares your tears, Some for two nights or one, And some for all your years.
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