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So it is that Lonely Places attract as many lonely people as they produce, and the loneliness we see in them is partly in ourselves.

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Pico Iyer
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: February 11
Essayist
Novelist
Siddharth Pico Raghavan Iyer
Partly
Loneliness
Lonely
Places
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Many
People
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