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Vikram Seth Quotes: 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.
         

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 think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.



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