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Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.

Pico Iyer

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Pico Iyer
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: February 11
Essayist
Novelist
Siddharth Pico Raghavan Iyer
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For if every true love affair can feel like a journey to a foreign country, where you can’t quite speak the language, and you don’t know where you’re going, and you’re pulled ever deeper into the inviting darkness, every trip to a foreign country can be a love affair, where you’re left puzzling over who you are and whom you’ve fallen in love with.
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Often when we think of exile we think of destruction or loss. But the Dalai Lama always says exile is reality, it's something we can make use of, and he has used it to get rid of everything that he thought was stifling and old, and to create a new, improved and much healthier Tibet.
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Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed.
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The less conscious one is of being a writer, the better the writing.
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We may be joined these days more by the questions we have in common than by the answers we share.
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A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about.
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The beauty of being foreign is that it snaps you awake.
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As soon as I'm on the road, I see, often palpably, that I know nothing at all, which is always a great liberation.
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The Australians, it seems to me, thrive on their remoteness from the world and see it as a way of keeping up a code of No worries, mate, while peddling their oddities to visitors: nonconformity is at once a fact of life for many, and a selling point.
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Hello Kitty will never speak.
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I often think we're most happy when we forget the time.
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In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have consumed, and we have not been enlarged by the feasts but only diminished.
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What we have to do is act as clearly and with as pure motivation as is possible now, and that will sow the seeds for good action maybe in the twenty-second century.
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And it’s only by going nowhere - by sitting still or letting my mind relax - that I find that the thoughts that come to me unbidden are far fresher and more imaginative than the ones I consciously seek out.
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For centuries, Cubas greatest resource has been its people.
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In an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.
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The Dalai Lama says Tibet and the modern world can engage in a conversation perhaps Tibet has something to share with the rest of us based on its researches into mind, and we have a lot that we can share with Tibet.
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Home is not just the place where you happen to be born. Its the place where you become yourself.
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Technology, in short, cannot teach me how to do without technology.
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