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title: "2 Airports Quotes By Pico Iyer"
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> [I am simply a fairly typical product of a movable sensibility, living and working in a world that is itself increasingly small and increasingly mongrel. I am a multinational soul on a multinational globe on which more and more countries…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/i-am-simply-a-fairly-typical-product-of-a-movable-sensibility-living/)

[Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c0/pico-iyer-1252_airports_i-am-simply-a-fairly-typical-product-of_821817.png)

> [What is fascinating about a place like Los Angeles airport is that it is lots and lots of people, many of whom have saved up all their lives and channeled all of their energies toward coming to the promised land…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/what-is-fascinating-about-a-place-like-los-angeles-airport-is-that-it/)

[Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/)

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## Other authors on Airports

## More by Pico Iyer

> [ \[The Dalai Lama\] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/the-dalai-lama-told-me-some-years-ago-i-ve-made-every-concession-to/)

[Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/)

> [For citizens who think themselves puppets in the hands of their rulers, nothing is more satisfying than having rulers as puppets in their hands.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/for-citizens-who-think-themselves-puppets-in-the-hands-of-their/)

[Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/)

> [The Dalai Lama would say that meditation is something that can help everyone. But he's aware that it can be misused or things can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/the-dalai-lama-would-say-that-meditation-is-something-that-can-help/)

[Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/)

> [Like any traveler, I'm always looking for those experiences that are almost unique to any place, and watching films around Alaska of the skies…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/like-any-traveler-i-m-always-looking-for-those-experiences-that-are/)

[Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/)

> [“When you're hurrying around too quickly," he had said, "there's a part of the world you can't see. If, for example, you're taking a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/when-you-re-hurrying-around-too-quickly-he-had-said-there-s-a-part-of/)

[Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/)

> [We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/we-travel-to-open-our-hearts-and-eyes-and-learn-more-about-the-world/)

[Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/)

> [The Dalai Lama, these days, encourages Westerners not to take up Buddhism, partly because he feels that our roots are deep in other traditions,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/the-dalai-lama-these-days-encourages-westerners-not-to-take-up/)

[Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/)

> [And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/and-if-travel-is-like-love-it-is-in-the-end-mostly-because-it-s-a/)

[Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/)

> [As soon as I began to talk to Dalai Lama, I realized that Chinese and Tibetans from his point of view are mostly the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/as-soon-as-i-began-to-talk-to-dalai-lama-i-realized-that-chinese-and/)

[Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/)

> [When we are kids, we imagine that to define ourselves or to find ourselves means charting your own individuality, making your own destiny, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/when-we-are-kids-we-imagine-that-to-define-ourselves-or-to-find/)

[Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/)

> [A writer is a palmist, reading the lines of the planet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/a-writer-is-a-palmist-reading-the-lines-of-the-planet/)

[Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/)

> [In barely one generation, we've moved from exulting in the time-saving devices that have so expanded our lives to trying to get away from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/in-barely-one-generation-we-ve-moved-from-exulting-in-the-time-saving/)

[Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/)

> [For centuries, Cubas greatest resource has been its people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/for-centuries-cubas-greatest-resource-has-been-its-people/)

[Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/)

> [Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/writing-is-in-the-end-that-oddest-of-anomalies-an-intimate-letter-to/)

[Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/)

> [“Was it only through another that I could begin to get at myself?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/was-it-only-through-another-that-i-could-begin-to-get-at-myself/)

[Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/)

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