"Writing should ... be as spontaneous and urgent……" — Pico Iyer
"Writing should ... be as spontaneous and urgent as a letter to a lover, or a message to a friend who has just lost a parent ... and writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger"
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100 Quotes by Pico Iyer
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Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.
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We travel, in essence, to become young fools again - to slow time down and get taken in, and fall…
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In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it…
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Silence is something more than just a pause; it is that enchanted place where space is cleared and time is…
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My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and…
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Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice
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Perhaps the greatest danger of our global community is that the person in LA thinks he knows Cambodia because he's…
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Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith.
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None of the things in life - like love or faith - was arrived at by thinking; indeed, one could…
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Lonely Places, then are the places that are not on international wavelengths, do not know how to carry themselves, are…
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Death undoes us less, sometimes, than the hope that it will never come.
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One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory.
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We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
— Margaret Atwood
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do…
— Walter Bagehot
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Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into…
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of…
— Franklin Pierce
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Every science is made up entirely of anomalies rearranged to fit.
— R. A. Lafferty
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We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in…
— Midge Decter
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From about the age of 5, I was aware that I didn't fit. I was the black, atheist kid in…
— Thandie Newton
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We must remember that all these things, the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties, which we assume only accessorize our days…
— Emma Thompson
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Walter Beasley is an anomaly: a successful performing musician who possesses the rare skill of understanding the musical process beyond…
— Branford Marsalis
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We tend to think of dangers and uncertainties as anomalies in the continuum of life, or irruptions of unpredictable forces…
— Arthur Kleinman
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I'd been sick on tour for about two years with this medical anomaly that doctors couldn't figure out. That's a…
— Lana Del Rey
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When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture.
— Robert Venturi
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