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- My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as…
- One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory.
- You rebel against your parents until you become them. One day you look in the mirror and you see your father's face.
- I do think it’s only by stopping movement that you can see where to go. And it’s only by stepping out of your life and…
- But it’s only by having some distance from the world that you can see it whole, and understand what you should be doing with it.
- I exult in the fact I can see everywhere with a flexible eye; the very notion of home is foreign to me, as the state…
- 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…
- A lack of affiliation may mean a lack of accountability, and forming a sense of commitment can be hard without a sense of community. Displacement…
- 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.
- I think writing is really about a journey of understanding. So you take something that seems very far away, and the more you write about…
- To see the Persia of poets and painters, hiding in plain sight behind the much-maligned Iran of our newspaper headlines, would be my fondest wish.
- The power of affinity lies in its mystery: the way it stands outside everything logical; you step into a crowded room and see a stranger,…
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