Pico Iyer Quotes
I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm known for having crazy shoes. I have a total Napoleon complex - I'm only 5'4", and every heel I have is four inches or more.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
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It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.
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My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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The future ain't what it used to be.
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Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
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Life without Liberty is far worse than death.
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When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something.
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Not even a maggot is an it, and to refer to any animal in that manner is an affectation, an ignorant stab at science-speak.
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We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.
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This was all he wanted now. Some signs that the immense world would accept him and give him the long time he needed to think all the things that must be thought.
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Maybe life is random, but I doubt it.
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I feel like I've been a Yankee my whole life.
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I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness.
