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Technology, in short, cannot teach me how to do without technology.

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Pico Iyer
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: February 11
Essayist
Novelist
Siddharth Pico Raghavan Iyer
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None of the things in life - like love or faith - was arrived at by thinking indeed, one could almost define the things that mattered as the ones that came as suddenly as thunder.
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In a world full of shifting borders, everything is happening all at once in every possible direction.
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Just as there are many more Californians now to be found in the temples of Kyoto or the villages of Bali or the mountains of the Himalayas than ever before, what is also exciting is that one can just go downtown Santa Barbara and find ayurvedic medicine, Thai restaurants, and Japanese cars in abundance.
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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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Living here in California, I think one of the scariest things about California is the fact that it is rewriting its script and changing constantly and so many people don't know who they will be and who they will be with a year from now.
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Home is essentially a set of values you carry around with you and, like a turtle or a snail or whatever, home has to be something that is part of you and can be equally a part of you wherever you are. I think that not having a home is a good inducement to creating a metaphysical home and to being able to see it in more invisible ways.
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I think people like me are in a relatively privileged position because we have to some extent chosen to live in foreign places. I would always make the distinction between those who are exiles in terms of being thrown out of the place they want to be, and others who are exiles in terms of going toward a place they would rather be.
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The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.
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Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.
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I suddenly realized I was racing around so much, I could never catch up with my life
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Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.
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With the war in Iraq, he [Dalai Lama] feels that the causes of that lie maybe hundreds of years ago, and he says, What we do now may have consequences far into the future that we will never see.
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In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.
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We travel, initially, to lose ourselves and we travel, next to find ourselves.
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It so often happens that somebody says 'change your life' and you repaint your car rather than re-wire the engine.
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I would say that by virtue of transforming politics, [Dalai Lama] is in fact easily underestimated.
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Mr. Trump doesn't radiate many of the qualities I respect. But what do I know? I've never met Trump. I know he's savvy enough to change his tune according to his audience and I don't know very much at all about how government works.
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I think that foreignness is always with you. Indeed, I find California more foreign to me the longer I live here. In thirty years of living here on and off, it hasn't lost anything of foreignness. If anything, it has gained.
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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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