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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
Late
Things
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Fate

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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.
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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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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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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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Good music is good music, but it has to be good.
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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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And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink
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I am certainly not allergic to causes - particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
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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 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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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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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 spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I'm enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.
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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 get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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God save us from people who mean well.
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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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