Pico Iyer





Pico Iyer

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born
in Oxford, England, The United Kingdom
January 01, 1957

gender
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Pico Iyer is a British-born essayist and novelist of Indian descent.


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“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.”
Pico Iyer

“A person susceptible to "wanderlust" is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.”
Pico Iyer

“What more could one ask of a companion? To be forever new and yet forever steady. To be strange and familiar all at once, with enough change to quicken my mind, enough steadiness to give sanctuary to my heart. The books on my shelf never asked to come together, and they would not trust or want to listen to one another; but each is a piece of a stained-glass whole without which I couldn’t make sense to myself, or to the world outside.”
Pico Iyer

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