Pico Iyer quotes

For more and more of us, home has really less to do with a piece of soil than, you could say, with a piece of soul. If somebody suddenly asks me, 'Where's your home?' I think about my sweetheart or my closest friends or the songs that travel with me wherever I happen to be. (Pico Iyer)
In the past, Ive visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states of mind: remote parts of myself that I wouldnt ordinarily explore. View quote
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Its no coincidence that the word holiday suggests a holy day, or that the longest book in the Torah concerns the Sabbath. If you wish to advance in any sphere, the best way is to take a retreat. View quote
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I can still remember the afternoon, on my 15th birthday, when I opened up 'The Virgin and the Gypsy,' D.H. Lawrence's novella, in my tiny cell in boarding school, and whole worlds of possibility opened out that I had never guessed existed. The language was on fire and sang of liberation. View quote
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In financial terms, my sense is that the distribution of wealth, unequal as it is, is self-perpetuating, and, especially in a linked and accelerating world, the rich get ever more quickly richer while the poor get ever more speedily poorer. View quote
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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred. View quote
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A person susceptible to "wanderlust" is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation. View quote
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Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger. View quote
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... home lies in the things you carry with you everywhere and not the ones that tie you down. View quote
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Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice. View quote
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We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say. (Pico Iyer)
The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual. View quote
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My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible. View quote
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Hello Kitty will never speak. View quote
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For centuries, Cuba's greatest resource has been its people. View quote
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A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about. View quote
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The average American teenager sends or receives 75 text messages a day, though one girl in Sacramento managed to handle an average of 10,000 every 24 hours for a month. View quote
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American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams. View quote
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The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug. View quote
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Movement is a fantastic privilege but it ultimately only has meaning if you have a home to go back to. View quote
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As Thoreau famously sead, it doesn't matter where or how far you go - the farther commonly the worse - the important thing is how alive you are. Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love. (Pico Iyer)